Sierra Nevada

American  

[see-er-uh nuh-vad-uh, -vah-duh, syer-rah ne-vah-thah] / siˈɛr ə nəˈvæd ə, -ˈvɑ də, ˈsjɛr rɑ nɛˈvɑ ðɑ /

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).

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Sierra Nevada British  

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)

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Sierra Nevada Cultural  

1. Mountain range in eastern California.

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

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Sierra Nevada

At the heart of the residence is an expansive living room featuring towering windows that showcase the lake and nearby Sierra Nevada.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Soon Marshall’s tailrace was universally acknowledged to be the doorway to the Mother Lode, “a snakelike vein of quartz-encapsulated gold that extended for more than 150 miles along the western edge” of the Sierra Nevada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The development pocket landed on California’s distressed insurance market list because it falls within Placer County, which stretches 65 miles east into the severe fire zones of the rugged Sierra Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

The recently released footage shows a helicopter hovering mere feet from a cliff face in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the US state of California while a rescue team secures an injured climber.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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