chain of mountains

1. 1.

   a series of hills or mountains

   “the valley was between two ranges of hills”

   “the plains lay just beyond the mountain range”

   Synonymsrangemountain rangerange of mountainschainmountain chain

   Broadergeological formation

   NarrowerAdirondacksAdmiralty RangeAlaska RangeAllegheniesAlpsAltai MountainsAndesApenninesAppalachiansAtlas Mountains

   Partsmassifpass

Questions about chain of mountains

What does chain of mountains mean?

chain of mountains means "a series of hills or mountains".

What is another word for chain of mountains?

Close synonyms include range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain. 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 chain of mountains a common word?

chain of mountains is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.