cascades

1. 1.

   a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range

   SynonymsCascade RangeCascade Mountains

   Broaderrange

   Part ofNorthwestCoast Range

   PartsMount Saint HelensAdamsRainier

Other forms of cascades

plural

cascadeses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cascades

What does cascades mean?

cascades means "a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range".

How many syllables are in cascades?

cascades has 2 syllables: ca-scades. The stress falls on "scades". In IPA it is /kæˈskeɪdz/.

What is another word for cascades?

Close synonyms include Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cascades a common word?

cascades 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.