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Rockies

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Rock·ies  (rkz)
See Rocky Mountains.
Rockies [ˈrɒkɪz]
pl n
(Placename) another name for the Rocky Mountains
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Noun1.RockiesRockies - the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
Rocky Mountains
Mount Elbert - the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,431 feet high)
North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
Pike's Peak - a mountain peak in the Rockies in central Colorado (14,109 feet high)
San Juan Mountains - a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains
Selkirk Mountains - a range of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia
Wheeler Peak - a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains
Translations
Rockies [ˈrɒkiz] npl (= mountains) the Rockies → les Rocheuses fpl
rocking chair n → rocking-chair m
rocking horse n → cheval m à bascule
Rockies
pl the Rockies → die Rocky Mountains pl


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It was after I had made my locations on Goldstead--and didn't know what a treasure-pot that that trip creek was going to prove--that I made that trip east over the Rockies, angling across to the Great Up North there the Rockies are something more than a back-bone.
The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context
It was a prodigious trip, but delightful, of course, through the Rockies and the Black Hills and the mighty sweep of the Great Plains to civilization and the Missouri border - where the railroading began and the delightfulness ended.
A Horse's Tale by Twain, Mark View in context
Grey Beaver had crossed the great watershed between Mackenzie and the Yukon in the late winter, and spent the spring in hunting among the western outlying spurs of the Rockies.
White Fang by London, Jack View in context
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