Lepontine Alps

[ li-pon-tin ]

plural noun

1. a central range of the Alps in S Switzerland and N Italy. Highest peak, Mt. Leone, 11,684 feet (3,561 meters).

Lepontine Alps

/ lɪˈpɒntaɪn /

plural noun

1. a range of the S central Alps, in S Switzerland and N Italy. Highest peak: Monte Leone, 3553 m (11 657 ft)

Example Sentences

A main artery for the Maggia River, the valley leads from the high summits of the Lepontine Alps to Lake Maggiore below, but it also breaks into more than 10 smaller canyons.

From Washington Post

How few, even among those who visit the Alps regularly, know anything whatever of such large, important, and interesting districts as the Silvretta group, the Rheinwald group, or the Lepontine Alps! while districts like Zermatt are thronged and crowded, and the mountains absolutely done to death.

From Project Gutenberg

Farther east are the Lepontine Alps, which give off a number of streams that feed the Italian lakes—Maggiore, Como, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

St. Gothard, a noted mountain in the Lepontine Alps, 9850 ft. high, crossed by a pass leading from Lake Lucerne to Lake Maggiore; since 1882 traversed by a railway with a tunnel through from Göschenen to Airolo, a distance of 9¼ m.

From Project Gutenberg