mountain

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. hill, peak, elevation, alp, mount. See height.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. towering, weighty, steep, isolated, lofty, elevated, plateau, broken, ski-country, snow-capped, above the timber line, above the snow line; see also mountainous .

Ant. level*, flat*, hollow.

n.

1. [A lofty land mass]

Syn. mount, elevation, peak, sierra, butte, hill, alp, range, ridge, pike, bluff, headland, land mass, knap, steeps, palisade, volcano, crater, lava cap, lava plug, tableland, mesa, plateau, height, crag, tor, precipice, cliff, massif, earth mass.

Ant. valley*, ravine, flatland.

Famous chains of mountains include: Alps, Himalayas, Caucasus, Urals, Pyrenees, Ruwenzori, Andes, Rockies, Canadian Rockies, Appalachians, Great Smoky, Blue Ridge, Ozarks, Cascades, Adirondacks, White Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Madre, Tetons, Cordillera, Apennine, Sentinel Range, Grampian Mountains. Famous mountain peaks include: Mont Blanc, Mt. Etna, Vesuvius, the Matterhorn, Olympus, Pike's Peak, Mt. Whitney, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Washington, Mt. Mitchell, Mt. Rushmore, Mt. Saint Helens, Mt. Rainier, the Jungfrau, Wetterhorn, Dent du Midi, the Grand Teton, Mt. McKinley, Mt. St. Elias, Mt. Logan, Mt. Robson, Krakatoa, Pelee, Citlaltepetl, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Popocatepetl, Iztaccihuatl, Mt. Cook, Mt. Everest, Annapurna, Mt. Dhaulagiri, Nanga Parbat, Lhotse, Nupseg, K2, Godwin Austen, Mt. Ushba, Mount of Olives, Mt. Sinai, Fujiyama, Mt. Kenya, Mt. Kilimanjaro.

2. [A pile]

Syn. mass, mound, glob*; see heap .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

peak, alp, mount, summit, pinnacle, highland, elevation, ridge, pike, sea-mount, volcano, butte, mesa, plateau, massif, matterhorn, monadnock, nunatak, uprising, cliff. famous mountains Aetna, Annapurna, Blanc, Everest, Fuji, Godwin Austen (K2), Grand Teton, Hood, Kilamanjaro, Krakatoa, Matterhorn, McKinley, Pelee, Pike's Peak, Rainier, Sinai, St. Helens, Vesuvius, Washington, Whitney. (Ranges) Adirondacks, Alps, Andes, Appalachian, Appenines, Canadian Rockies, Cascades, Caucasus, Himalayas, Karakoram, Pyrenees, Rockies, Sierra Madre, Sierra Nevada, Tetons, Urals, White Mountains. The palaces of nature.''—Lord Byron.

ANT.: valley, dale, dell, crater

WORD FIND

• air: rarefied

• base: piedmont

• bowllike hollow carved by glacier: cirque

• chain: cordillera, range, sierra

• cloud: banner

• crest: areête

• descriptive: bell-shaped, flinty, spired

• elevation above 4800 ft.: alpine

• erosion resistant: monadnock

• flat-topped: butte, mesa, plateau

• formation: orogeny

• frozen fog: rime ice, verglas

• glacial ice, surrounded by: nunatak

• glow at sunrise/sunset: alpenglow

• gully: couloir

• humpback: shoulder

• lake: tarn

• leeward side: rain shadow

• low between summits: saddle

• needlelike peak: aiguille, matterhorn

• nymph: oread

• oxygen deprivation: mountain sickness

• pass: col, defile

• peak: horn, summit

• ranges, multiple: cordillera

• ridge: areête, hogback, sawback, spur

• rounded: knob

• rubble: scree, talus

• saddle: col

• sea: seamount

• shadow illusion: specter of the brocken

• side: flank

• snow collapse: avalanche

• steep, weathered rock: crag

• study: orography

• vestigial nubbin: inselberg

see hill, mountaineer, mountaineering, mountainous, volcano

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A group of things gathered haphazardly: agglomeration, bank1, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mess, mound, pile, shock2, stack, tumble. See ORDER. 2. A great deal: abundance, mass, much, plenty, profusion, wealth, world. Informal: barrel, heap, lot, pack, peck2, pile. Regional: power, sight. See BIG.