Atlas Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in NW Africa, extending through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Highest peak, Mt. Tizi, 14,764 feet (4,500 meters).

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Atlas Mountains British  

plural noun

1. a mountain system of N Africa, between the Mediterranean and the Sahara. Highest peak: Mount Toubkal, 4165 m (13 664 ft)

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Example Sentences

In this stretch of dramatic desert flanked by the Atlas Mountains, men assemble stacks of speakers — a wall to keep a horde of Western invaders in.

From Los Angeles Times

A woman trekked on her own across Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.

From Seattle Times

With the price of heating gas high and temperatures dropping, the closures have raised particular concern in towns high in the Atlas Mountains where people go to hammams to warm up.

From Seattle Times

"In the region there's not a high rate of seismic activity, so we don't have a great idea of what the 'common' characteristics are of large earthquakes in the Atlas Mountains," said U.S.

From Science Daily

He was just 8 and asleep when a large earthquake struck Morocco in 1960, wiping out entire neighborhoods in the coastal city of Agadir, near the Atlas Mountains, and killing at least 12,000 people.

From New York Times