Sierra Nevada

[see-er-uh nuh-vad-uh, -vah-duh, syer-rah ne-vah-thah]

noun

1. a mountain range in E California. Highest peak, Mt. Whitney, 14,495 feet (4,420 meters).

2. a mountain range in S Spain. Highest peak, Mulhacén, 11,420 feet (3,480 meters).

Sierra Nevada

noun

1. a mountain range in E California, parallel to the Coast Ranges. Highest peak: Mount Whitney, 4418 m (14 495 ft)

2. a mountain range in SE Spain, mostly in Granada and Almería provinces. Highest peak: Cerro de Mulhacén, 3478 m (11 411 ft)

Sierra Nevada

1. Mountain range in eastern California.

Location of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the United States outside of Alaska.

Example Sentences

By soaking soils, they’ll enable future rainstorms to more easily run off into reservoirs and snow to accumulate in the Sierra Nevada.

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The Sierra Nevada resort had initially announced a Nov. 14 opening date, but pushed it off as an atmospheric river storm swept across the state.

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In Sierra Nevada, snow levels are expected to fall to around 8,000 feet above sea level around Tahoe and in Mono County from Thursday night into Friday morning.

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The storm could bring heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada, and meteorologists were already discouraging travel during the peak time of the snowstorm — between Thursday morning and Friday morning.

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The Gold Rush transformed California, known as the Golden State, and many towns in the Sierra Nevada are working to keep that moment in history alive.

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