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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
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mountain range1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Bears are common across the Carpathian mountain range, which stretches in an arc from Romania through western Ukraine and on to Slovakia and Poland.

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Monday’s drizzle comes on the heels of a wet week that delivered a significant dose of moisture to parched Southern California and heavy snow across the state’s mountain ranges.

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The storm is also expected to drop a fresh dusting of powder across California’s mountain ranges.

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Lesotho is completely encircled by South Africa, but separated by the forbidding mountain ranges.

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In Southern California, the weather service issued a winter weather advisory for Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties’ mountain ranges.

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