Green Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in Vermont: a part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak, Mt. Mansfield, 4,393 feet (1,339 meters).

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Green Mountains British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in E North America, extending from Canada through Vermont into W Massachusetts: part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak: Mount Mansfield, 1338 m (4393 ft)

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Green Mountains Cultural  

1. Range of mountains, part of the Appalachians, that runs north-south in Vermont and from which Vermont draws its name.

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Example Sentences

But dozens of roads were closed, including many along the spine of the Green Mountains.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2023

Dartmouth College, where I teach anthropology, is a small liberal arts school in New Hampshire nestled in a valley between that state’s White Mountains and the Green Mountains of Vermont.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2022

Cotner’s roundup notes that “high color” can be found in parts of the Green Mountains in Vermont as well as in northern Aroostook County, Maine.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022

A hairpin turn along the Appalachian Gap, a mountain pass in the Green Mountains of Vermont.Credit...

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2022

From Georgia to Maine, it wanders across fourteen states, through plump, comely hills whose very names—Blue Ridge, Smokies, Cumberlands, Green Mountains, White Mountains—seem an invitation to amble.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson