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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A major mountain system of western North America extending more than 4,800 km (3,000 mi) from northwest Alaska to the Mexican border and rising to 4,399 m (14,433 ft) at Mount Elbert in central Colorado. The system includes numerous ranges and forms the Continental Divide. The Rocky Mountain Trench runs along the western side of the mountains in British Columbia, Canada.
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- proper noun A range of mountains running from Northern
New Mexico toAlaska .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
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Examples
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We used to play baseball back behind our house in that area we called the Rocky Mountains.
KILLING WILLIS TODD BRIDGES 2010
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We used to play baseball back behind our house in that area we called the Rocky Mountains.
KILLING WILLIS TODD BRIDGES 2010
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The reservoirs were filled by heavy rains in May, and now the Corps needs to make room for heavy snow pack in the Rocky Mountains, which is just beginning to melt.
Missouri River Breaches Levee, Threatens City Joe Barrett 2011
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The reservoirs were filled by heavy rains in May, and now the Corps needs to make room for heavy snow pack in the Rocky Mountains, which is just beginning to melt.
Missouri River Breaches Levee, Threatens City Joe Barrett 2011
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A regional ecosystem like the ecosystem of the Rocky Mountains is a system of local ecosystems including valleys, plateaus, streams, and high-altitude mountaintops.
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Along the south-western side of the Rocky Mountains is a very remarkable valley of considerable geological antiquity, in which some seven of the great rivers of the Pacific slope, among them the Kootenay, Columbia,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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_Pike's Peak_, the most famous in the chain known as the Rocky Mountains in America, is fourteen thousand one hundred and forty-seven feet high.
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Beyond the main chain of the Rocky Mountains are the Deer Lodge and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various
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When its original territorial limits were discussed it was suggested that the crest of the Rocky Mountains was a natural boundary, and it was on the reply of Colonel William Gilpin, who became its first governor, that railroads and political unity had superseded natural boundaries, that it was placed squarely across the divide and so has its mountain centre with a slope to either ocean.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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It almost looks as if He grasped the continent so tightly that its western border was crumpled into great wrinkles and folds which we men call the Rocky Mountains and the Andes.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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