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Olympic Mountains

American  

plural noun

  1. a mountain system in NW Washington, part of the Coast Range. Highest peak, Mt. Olympus, 7,954 feet (2,424 meters).


Olympic Mountains British  

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in NW Washington: part of the Coast Range. Highest peak: Mount Olympus, 2427 m (7965 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She finally settled on Systems Design, an ambulance billing company based in Poulsbo, Wash., nestled between Seattle and the Olympic Mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Forecasts show another storm coming Monday and could add another 2 to 3 inches of rain in the Olympic Mountains and North Cascades in western Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Charge your phone to ensure photos of the Olympic Mountains, Strait of Juan de Fuca and Vancouver Island — and, on a nice day, Mount Baker to the west.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024

In the summer, my high-school friends and I would disappear for a couple of weeks into the backcountry of the Cascades or the Olympic Mountains.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

As a boy Roger had idled away his summers rowing lazily about in Manzanita Bay, a lovely blue cove lying in the lee of the Olympic Mountains.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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