mountain range
/ˈmaʊn.tɪn ɹeɪndʒ/
mountain range noun: a series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
Noun
mountain range (plural mountain ranges)
- A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
- For the first 60 miles from Padang Besar, the railway passes through a succession of rice fields, with villages at regular intervals, but then crosses a jungle-clad mountain range to reach the west coast.1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 287
- Synonyms:
- Note: Names of mountain ranges often simply use the plural of a name for an individual mountain: alps, highlands, hills, mountains, in informal usage that part is often omitted entirely, and the first part pluralized: the Rocky Mountains can be called the Rockies., mountain chain, range
mountain range meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
mountain range in Hindi
- line of mountains
- पर्वतमाला parvatmālā, पर्वत शृंखला parvat śŕṅkhlā, पर्वतश्रेणी parvataśreṇī
mountain range in Tamil
- மலைத்தொடர்
mountain range in Marathi
- line of mountains
- पर्वतरांग parvatrāṅga
mountain range in Bengali
- line of mountains
- পর্বতমালা porbotmala
More languagesFewer languages
- mountain range in Malayalam
- ശൃംഖല śr̥ṅkhala
- mountain range in Kannada
- ಪರ್ವತ ಶ್ರೇಣಿ, ಪರ್ವತ ಸಾಲು
- mountain range in Sanskrit
- विष्कम्भ viṣkambha
- mountain range in Tagalog
- bulubundukin, tagaytay
- mountain range in Malay
- banjaran gunung
- mountain range in Indonesian
- pegunungan, pergunungan
- mountain range in Thai
- เทือกเขา tʉ̂ʉak-kǎo
- mountain range in Vietnamese
- dãy núi
Synonyms of mountain range
- Note: Names of mountain ranges often simply use the plural of a name for an individual mountain: alps
- highlands
- hills
- mountains
- in informal usage that part is often omitted entirely
- and the first part pluralized: the Rocky Mountains can be called the Rockies.
- mountain chain
- range
Forms of mountain range
| plural | mountain ranges |
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Origin of mountain range
From mountain + range.
Words formed from mountain range
Questions about mountain range
- What does mountain range mean?
- Mountain range means a series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
- What is mountain range in Hindi?
- Mountain range in Hindi is पर्वतमाला (parvatmālā), पर्वत शृंखला (parvat śŕṅkhlā), पर्वतश्रेणी (parvataśreṇī). See Mountain range meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mountain range?
- Mountain range is a noun.
- How do you pronounce mountain range?
- Mountain range is pronounced /ˈmaʊn.tɪn ɹeɪndʒ/.
- What is the plural of mountain range?
- The plural of mountain range is mountain ranges.
Words near mountain range in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mountain range (page history and authors); mountain range (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ശൃംഖല (Malayalam) (page history and authors); mountain range (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); विष्कम्भ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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