mountain range

noun

1. a series of more or less connected mountains ranged in a line.

2. a series of mountains, or of more or less parallel lines of mountains, closely related, as in origin.

3. 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).

mountain range

noun

1. a series of adjoining mountains or of lines of mountains of similar origin

Word History and Origins

Origin of mountain range¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Four years older than me, he was dispatched to an American boarding school in Kodaikanal, a “hill station” scattered across the crevices of the Palani Hills, the eastern stretch of the Western Ghats mountain range.

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Before me, the mountain range extended somewhere beyond the haze.

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“Argentina doesn’t export even a single gram of copper while Chile, which shares the same mountain range with us, exports $20 billion a year,” Milei said Thursday at a business forum in Miami.

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Donner Peak could get 12 to 18 inches of snow, and the California Highway Patrol is expected to require motorists to use chains to cross California’s mightiest mountain range.

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The expedition to recover the deepest ice samples ever extracted from the Pamir, one of the world's highest and least-studied mountain ranges, aims to give scientists access to one of the planet's oldest climate archives.

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