Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains proper noun: a range of mountains running from Northern New Mexico to Alaska.

Proper noun
the Rocky Mountains pl (normally plural, singular Rocky Mountain)
- A range of mountains running from Northern New Mexico to Alaska.
- Synonyms:
- Rockies
Rocky Mountains meaning in Arabic
Rocky Mountains in Arabic
- mountain range
- جِبَال رُوكِي jibāl rūkī
Synonyms of Rocky Mountains
Forms of Rocky Mountains
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Origin of Rocky Mountains
Calque of French Montagnes de Roche first recorded in 1752 by Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, believed to itself be a calque from an indigenous language, possibly a calque of Plains Cree asinîwaciy, a compound which includes asiniy (“rock”) + waciy (“mountain”).
Words formed from Rocky Mountains
- Rockies
- Rocky Mountain beeplant
- Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
- Rocky Mountain blazing star
- Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine
- Rocky Mountain canary
- Rocky Mountain clearwing
- Rocky Mountain dotted blue
- Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir
- Rocky Mountain elk
- Rocky Mountain fever
- Rocky Mountain goat
- Rocky Mountain goldenrod
- Rocky Mountain juniper
- Rocky Mountain Kool-Aid
- Rocky Mountain locust
- Rocky Mountain mule deer
- Rocky Mountain oyster
- Rocky Mountain parnassian
- Rocky Mountain penstemon
- Rocky Mountain pussytoes
- Rocky Mountain raspberry
- Rocky Mountain sheep
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Rocky Mountain toast
- Rocky Mountain whitefish
- Rocky Mountain zinnia
Questions about Rocky Mountains
- What does Rocky Mountains mean?
- Rocky Mountains means a range of mountains running from Northern New Mexico to Alaska.
- What is Rocky Mountains in Arabic?
- Rocky Mountains in Arabic is جِبَال رُوكِي (jibāl rūkī). See Rocky Mountains meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is Rocky Mountains?
- Rocky Mountains is a proper noun.
Words near Rocky Mountains in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rocky Mountains (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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