Pyrenees

[ pir-uh-neez ]

plural noun

1. a mountain range between Spain and France. Highest peak, Pic de Néthou, 11,165 feet (3,400 meters).

Pyrenees

/ ˌpɪrəˈniːz /

plural noun

1. a mountain range between France and Spain, extending from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. Highest peak: Pico de Aneto, 3404 m (11 168 ft)

Pyrenees

1. Mountain chain in southwestern Europe , between France and Spain , extending from the Bay of Biscay on the west to the Mediterranean Sea on the east.

Other Words From

• Pyre·nean adjective
• sub-Pyr·e·nean adjective
• trans-Pyr·e·nean adjective

Example Sentences

Andorra is a small country known for its ski areas that is nestled between Spain and France in the Pyrenees.

From Washington Blade

The Tour de France Femmes noticeably sidesteps the iconic climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees, and it also skips an individual time trial, which is a mainstay in the men’s race.

From Outside Online

At the Fuji Park Evacuation Center, about six miles from Carson City Community Center, Dan Barosko and his 138-pound Pyrenees dog Lilie evacuated from his home in South Lake Tahoe on Monday afternoon.

From Washington Post

With Franco in power, and still facing reprisals, he fled into exile in Pamiers, France, close to the Pyrenees mountain region near the Spanish border.

From Washington Post

Hemingway and his first wife Hadley went from the Basque country to Pamplona over the Pyrenees by bus.

From The Daily Beast

The two women crossed the Pyrenees by foot, ending up in a Spanish jail before being rescued by friends.

From The Daily Beast

He was the fourth son of a peasant proprietor of Lectourne, a little town on the slopes of the Pyrenees.

From Project Gutenberg

Incessantly fighting for fifteen days in his retreat towards the Pyrenees, he lost three thousand more of his men.

From Project Gutenberg

His immediate recompense was the post of general of brigade in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees.

From Project Gutenberg

He was, for this reason, at once elected lieutenant-colonel of the volunteer legion of the Pyrenees.

From Project Gutenberg

This alliance was invented by Spain, which will never renounce its project of destroying the boundary of the Pyrenees.

From Project Gutenberg