black hills

Questions about black hills

What does black hills mean?

black hills means "mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is black hills a common word?

black hills is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.