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Spend the day hiking among the boulders, arches, and jagged peaks of the Alabama Hills, where a number of movies, including The Lone Ranger, Gladiator, and Django Unchained, were filmed, before heading north.—Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 17 July 2025 On Bouvet, snow petrels build their nests in rocky crevices on cliff faces, scree slopes and beneath boulders, which offer shelter from the fierce winds.—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025 King Sisyphus was cursed to spend his afterlife pushing a boulder up a hill.—John Wiswell, People.com, 3 July 2025 Midnight Hole – Great Smoky Mountains, NC Why go: A dreamy, deep swimming hole with emerald water, surrounded by boulders and shaded forest.—Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for boulder
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Etymology
short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulder ston, partial translation of a word of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialect bullersten large stone in a stream, from buller noise + sten stone
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