Rockies
pronunciation
How to pronounce Rockies in British English:
UK [ˈrɔkiz]
How to pronounce Rockies in American English:
US [ˈrɑkiz]
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- Noun:
- the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
Word Origin
- Rockies (n.)
- "the Rocky Mountains," 1827; see rocky.
Example
- 1. 01 A bighorn sheep at the banff national park in canadian rockies
- 2. None of the eight states in the rockies voted democratic in a presidential election from 1968 to 1988 .
- 3. Democrats , meanwhile , lost many of their toeholds in the great plains , the rockies and the south .
- 4. All sea ice is gone from both poles ; mountain glaciers are gone from the andes , alps and rockies .
- 5. What appears to be a stroke of thick red paint is actually a remarkable interplay of light and cloud in the canadian rockies .