mount carmel

1. 1.

   a mountain range in northwestern Israel near the Mediterranean coast

   “according to the Old Testament, Elijah defeated the priests of Baal at Mount Carmel”

   Broaderrange

   Part ofIsrael

Questions about mount carmel

What does mount carmel mean?

mount carmel means "a mountain range in northwestern Israel near the Mediterranean coast".

Is mount carmel a common word?

mount carmel 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.