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mountain range

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mountain range
n.
A series of mountain ridges alike in form, direction, and origin.
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Noun1.mountain rangemountain range - a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
geological formation, formation - (geology) the geological features of the earth
massif - a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range
mountain pass, notch, pass - the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow"
Translations

mountain range nsierra
mountain range mountain nchaƮne f de montagnes
mountain range nGebirgskette f
mountain range ncatena montuosa


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And, over all, was a great mountain range of snowy clouds in the blue southern sky.
He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightning on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range.
Up toward its source we traveled until on the tenth day we came to a little spring far up upon the side of a lofty mountain range.
 
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