rocky mountains

Questions about rocky mountains

What does rocky mountains mean?

rocky mountains means "the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide".

What is another word for rocky mountains?

Close synonyms include Rockies. 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 rocky mountains a common word?

rocky 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.