Meanings
plural mountain ranges
- geographyA 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 287Synonyms: Note: Names of mountain ranges often simply use the plural of a name for an individual mountain: alps, highlands, hills, mountains, etc. See Thesaurus:mountain. Also, in informal usage that part is often omitted entirely, and the first part pluralized: the Rocky Mountains can be called the Rockies., mountain chain
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
More synonyms by meaning
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Translations
Afrikaans gebergte
- gebergteline of mountains
Bengali পর্বতমালা
- পর্বতমালা (porbotmala)line of mountains
Catalan serra, serralada
- serraline of mountains
- serraladaline of mountains
Chinese Mandarin 山脈 /山脉
- 山脈 /山脉 (shānmài)line of mountains
Czech pohoří, horské pásmo
- pohoříline of mountains
- horské pásmoline of mountains
Danish bjergkæde
- bjergkædeline of mountains
Dutch gebergte
- gebergteline of mountains
Esperanto montaro
- montaroline of mountains
Finnish vuorijono
- vuorijonoline of mountains
French chaine de montagnes, cordillère
- chaine de montagnesline of mountains
- cordillèreline of mountains
German Gebirgskette
- Gebirgsketteline of mountains
Greek οροσειρά
- οροσειρά (oroseirá)line of mountains
Hindi पर्वतमाला, पर्वत शृंखला
- पर्वतमाला (parvatmālā)line of mountains
- पर्वत शृंखला (parvat śŕṅkhlā)line of mountains
- पर्वतश्रेणी (parvataśreṇī)line of mountains
Hungarian hegylánc, hegyvonulat
- hegyláncline of mountains
- hegyvonulatline of mountains
- hegységline of mountains
Icelandic fjallgarður
- fjallgarðurline of mountains
Indonesian pegunungan, pergunungan
- pegununganline of mountains
- pergununganline of mountains
Japanese 山脈
- 山脈 (sanmyaku)line of mountains
Korean 산맥
- 산맥 (sanmaek)line of mountains
Lithuanian kalnãgūbris
- kalnãgūbrisline of mountains
Malay banjaran gunung
- banjaran gunungline of mountains
Māori paemaunga
- paemaungaline of mountains
Norwegian Bokmål fjellkjede
- fjellkjedeline of mountains
Polish pasmo górskie
- pasmo górskieline of mountains
Portuguese cordilheira
- cordilheiraline of mountains
Romanian catenă, lanț montan
- catenăline of mountains
- lanț montanline of mountains
- lanț muntosline of mountains
Russian го́рный хребе́т, го́рная цепь
- го́рный хребе́т (górnyj xrebét)line of mountains
- го́рная цепь (górnaja cepʹ)line of mountains
Spanish cordillera, sierra
- cordilleraline of mountains
- sierraline of mountains
Swahili safu ya milima
- safu ya milimaline of mountains
Swedish bergskedja
- bergskedjaline of mountains
Tagalog bulubundukin, tagaytay
- bulubundukinline of mountains
- tagaytayline of mountains
Thai เทือกเขา
- เทือกเขา (tʉ̂ʉak-kǎo)line of mountains
Ukrainian гірськи́й хребе́т
- гірськи́й хребе́т (hirsʹkýj xrebét)line of mountains
Vietnamese dãy núi
- dãy núiline of mountains
Cite this entry
mountain range. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountain%20range
“mountain range.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountain%20range. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mountain range,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountain%20range.
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