high sierra

Questions about high sierra

What does high sierra mean?

high sierra means "a mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney".

What is another word for high sierra?

Close synonyms include Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada 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 high sierra a common word?

high sierra 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.