mountain ranges

Noun

mountain range (plural mountain ranges)

1. 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

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   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