mountain range
Americannoun
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a series of more or less connected mountains ranged in a line.
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a series of mountains, or of more or less parallel lines of mountains, closely related, as in origin.
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an area in which the greater part of the land surface is in considerable degree of slope, upland summits are small or narrow, and there are great differences in elevations within the area (commonly over 2,000 feet, or 610 meters).
noun
Etymology
Origin of mountain range
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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In the communities nearby - bare homes scattered over barren, brown hills, set against the snowy peaks of the Siah Koh mountain range - the devastating impact of unemployment is clear.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Over time, they will look like the jagged profile of a mountain range.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
The Western Ghats - a Unesco World Heritage Site - is a 1,600km-long mountain range that stretches along India's western coast.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Argentina currently produces virtually no copper, even though it shares the same Andean mountain range with Chile, by far the world’s biggest copper producer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
At last, though, as the sun began to dip behind the mountain range to their left, Naravirala turned to the humans.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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