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Rocky Mountains
[ rok-ee moun-tnz ]
plural noun
- the chief mountain system in North America, extending from central New Mexico to northern Alaska. Highest peak, Denali, 20,300 feet (6,187 meters).
Rocky Mountains
plural noun
- the chief mountain system of W North America, extending from British Columbia to New Mexico: forms the Continental Divide. Highest peak: Mount Elbert, 4399 m (14 431 ft). Mount McKinley (6194 m (20 320 ft)), in the Alaska Range, is not strictly part of the Rocky Mountains
Word History and Origins
Origin of Rocky Mountains1
Example Sentences
These agricultural pests migrate in mid-summer to the Rocky Mountains from Kansas and Nebraska to beat the heat.
The Capitol sits in the Rocky Mountains, which serve as a natural barrier to and from its surrounding districts.
They think Americans should go to Yosemite or the Rocky Mountains.
We are all security risks with backgrounds and personal histories resembling a silhouette of the Rocky Mountains.
The gallinaceous birds include the large blue grouse of the coast, replaced in the Rocky Mountains by the dusky grouse.
To begin with, vast lakes, which once swept westward from the bases of the Rocky Mountains, were emptied into the Pacific.
Have you explained to him that his grandchildren are coming home to-morrow from the Rocky Mountains?
Beyond commences the wide sandy desert, stretching westward to the base of the Rocky Mountains.
This splendid lodge, with all its poles and furniture, was brought from the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
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