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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mountain range¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Startlingly beautiful, this vast expanse of steppe, tundra and mountain ranges can be punishing in its refusal to accept wanderers and trespassers.

From Ozy

Anyone with an iPhone XR or later can take advantage of an interactive globe, including a view of Earth from space and detailed imaging of mountain ranges, forests, and oceans.

From Popular-Science

Close-ups of Pluto revealed potentially active mountain ranges, flowing ice, and a surprising record of geologic history on its surface.

From MIT Technology Review

Pictorially, these adaptive landscapes, sometimes called fitness landscapes, look like mountain ranges.

From Nautilus

They’re books that you can open up and look at the scale of an entire continent, or you can zoom in and look at a mountain range or a city.

From MIT Technology Review

To the north, the icy southern peaks of the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountain range on the continent, nip at the sky.

From The Daily Beast

A ski and snowboard week held in the jagged Sierra Nevada mountain range.

From The Daily Beast

The nerve gas shells were fired from a military base in a mountain range to the west of Damascus, according to the report.

From The Daily Beast

Sculpteo Want a three-dimensional version of your favorite mountain range protruding from the back of your phone?

From The Daily Beast

In the countryside, my view is of trees and some kind of mountain range in the distance.

From The Daily Beast

It was quite two miles to the ascending road at the foot of the mountain range that divided the great valley.

From Project Gutenberg

Malacca is, near the coast, merely hilly; but further in the interior the hills swell into a fine mountain range.

From Project Gutenberg

Beneath them was a blur of whirling white; ahead was an upthrust mountain range upon which they were driving.

From Project Gutenberg

Wild thoughts of a big signal fire—But how could that be sighted across a mountain range.

From Project Gutenberg

It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got into the thunderous one.

From Project Gutenberg

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