Taunus Mountains

American  

[tou-nuhs, tou-noos] / ˈtaʊ nəs, ˈtaʊ nʊs /

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. a mountain range in W Germany, bounded by the Rhine, Main, and Lahn river valleys. Highest peak, Grosser Feldberg. 2,628 feet (801 meters).

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Example Sentences

As you walk down this steep rocky incline, the Taunus Mountains rise up grand and high in ever-changing panorama.

From Fairy Tales from the German Forests by Arndt, Margaret

The next day General Grant drove to Homburg, fifteen miles, and thence four miles farther to Saalburg, the site of an ancient Roman fortification on the Taunus Mountains.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

Eppstein Of the castle of Eppstein, whose ruins still remain in a valley of the Taunus Mountains, north of Biberich, the following curious story is told.

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

HOMBURG-VOR-DER-H�HE, a town and watering-place of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, prettily situated at the south-east foot of the Taunus Mountains, 12 m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

This is at the entrance of the Roman-named Taunus Mountains, where there are bathing-places, ruined castles, ancient bridges, plenty of legends, and, above all, dark solemn old chestnut forests.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various