Taunus Mountains

[ tou-nuhs; German tou-noos ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. a mountain range in W Germany, bounded by the Rhine, Main, and Lahn river valleys. Highest peak, Grosser Feldberg. 2,628 feet (801 meters).

Example Sentences

Then we headed out of town toward the nearby Taunus mountains and the Feldberg, which is where the woman was waiting with the sign urging us to torture ourselves — superfluous advice, since there is no painless way to get to the top.

From New York Times

HOMBURG-VOR-DER-H�HE, a town and watering-place of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, prettily situated at the south-east foot of the Taunus Mountains, 12 m.

From Project Gutenberg

Checks of shops in Frankfurt turned up a pair of Arabs who had bought altimeters and tested them in the nearby Taunus Mountains.

From Time Magazine Archive

There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sky was clear, only it still lightened over the Taunus mountains.

From Project Gutenberg