mountain pass

Questions about mountain pass

What does mountain pass mean?

mountain pass means "the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks".

What is another word for mountain pass?

Close synonyms include pass, notch. 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 mountain pass a common word?

mountain pass 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.