MOUNTAINS Synonyms: 236 Similar and Opposite Words

mountains

noun

plural of mountain

as in peaks

an elevation of land higher than a hill my cousin likes to climb mountains just because she can

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as in loads

a considerable amount receives a mountain of mail every year for the holidays

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as in piles

a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another he piled a mountain of mashed potatoes on his plate

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Recent Examples of mountains That potential for change comes in part thanks to Nepal’s more than 6,000 rivers and streams that flow down from the mountains and are strengthened by monsoons and melting glaciers, which allow the country to run on 99% hydropower. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026 Warmer storms hold more moisture, and push the snow line up the mountains, so precipitation that should be saved as snowpack runs off as rain. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Outside a rehearsal space in this city ringed by mountains, opera singer Michael Kuhn was practicing fly casting. — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2026 How to Get Around The best way to explore Banner Elk and its surrounding mountains is by car. — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2026 Across the rugged landscape that has made Yemen famed for its beauty, videos of the fighting over the last few days showed men dying violently on craggy mountains and on barren desert flats. — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 Strong to severe storms with damaging winds threaten the Charlotte area, the mountains and Upstate South Carolina through the evening Saturday, National Weather Service meteorologists said. — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 19 Sep. 2026 There’s a real buzz in the air, both from the eager Londoners queuing patiently for their order, and from the heady fumes of roasting beans—piled up like mountains of glossy jewels behind the counter. — Sarah Allard, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026 The fighter jet's pilot was rescued within hours, but Bravo remained alone in the mountains of Iran for two days. — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountains

Noun

Sailing through the Drake Passage is like being on a mountain bike and joining in with a herd of stampeding bison, or like paragliding between Alpine peaks in the middle of the wildest storm.

— KC Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
Reilly’s September 10 report found consensus estimates for S&P 500 earnings growth now matching dot-com-era peaks, concentrated overwhelmingly in technology and semiconductor names.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of peaks

Noun

Eventually, the firms dumped the valuable slag into waste piles and wrote off the metals inside.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
Some T-shirts and hats were handed out, but players only briefly put them on before adding them to the piles some of them have at home.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of piles

Noun

There have been a number previous instances of that, including a Germanwings flight that crashed into the French alps in 2015, killing everyone aboard.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 May 2026
Odds are most Dodgers fans haven’t seen, say, his Kunsthaus Bregenz, in a small town on the northern edge of the Austrian alps.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026

Definition of alps

Noun

The country plans to expand LNG capacity from 77 million tons per year to 142 million by 2030, and duplicating that infrastructure isn’t feasible.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Every year, more than 350 million tons of PET plastic waste are generated globally.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of tons

Noun

In my ideal world there would be dozens of essay collections by excellent writers (Choi is a poet) on culture and politics, technology and the evils of capitalism.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
The letter says the signs will number about a dozen and will cost $7,000 each, or about $84,000 total.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of dozens

Noun

Iconic views of both sea and Grand Prix road below the cantilevered hills ensure that guests slide into the prestigious fantasy of the place with nary a hitch.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
From that restaurant Cardoso could look out the window and see sloping hills and Lucas’ Wagyu cows raised there on the farm.

— Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026