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 Close in age, Anderson and Coffey have become frequent golf partners and often take long hikes up the mountains and along the reservoirs outside the city, areas that remind Coffey of his rural home country. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026 If convenient, get the family together and travel up to the mountains for a panoramic view of what nature offers every autumn. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 Sep. 2026 Another was his girlfriend’s modular home, parked in the mountains of Piercy, where Letrell grew cannabis. — Meghan O'Brien, NBC news, 8 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 Black bears usually stick to Colorado's mountains and foothills. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 Black bears usually stick to Colorado’s mountains and foothills. — Brittany Peterson, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026 Tucked away in the Colorado mountains with nary a red carpet or paparazzo in sight, the low-key film festival doesn’t announce its lineup until the day before opening and surprise additions have long been a fixture of the event. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 The mission includes prairies, plains, and mountains, where helicopters need to fly over remote areas at any time of day. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountains

Noun

Heat and humidity on Friday are expected to fall from peaks on Thursday, with highs across the region dropping 4 to 8 degrees, forecasts show.

— Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
The winds become more severe at elevation, where the contraction of the atmosphere along ridgelines and mountain peaks could exceed 40-50 mph in parts of the Sierra.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of peaks

Noun

The size and specialized nature of these loads can also create opportunities for carriers to take on new customers and routes.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
Faster speeds generally mean a compromise in quality, multi-color 3D printers often waste some filament, and higher volume loads usually demand more hardware.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of loads

Noun

Lining the approach to the gate, there was an embarrassment of new undergarments, towering piles of briefs and T-shirts.

— Devin Friedman, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
When snow piles deep in the upper reaches, animals have no choice but to migrate down, since their food sources are covered with snow.

— Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 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

China’s grain output reached a record 715 million tons in 2025, while national plans call for increasing comprehensive grain production capacity to about 725 million tons by 2030.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
But by the end of the season, Bowen Byram and Power were eating tons of minutes together and helping lead the Sabres to the best record in the Atlantic Division.

— Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of tons

Noun

Plus, one of the Legislature’s last acts last week was to send Newsom a bloated supplemental budget bill containing more than $3 billion in spending, including countless stacks of pork sought by lawmakers for their districts.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Her existence is solitary by design, freeing her up to disappear into her studies at all hours of the night, the doors of every institution seemingly always ready to welcome her into its stacks and viewing stations and leather reading chairs.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of stacks

Noun

Anthony Kwan / Getty Images file Legal concerns have led to the shutdown of dozens of civil society groups, including the alliance, which voted to disband in 2021.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026
Over 760,000 teenagers in dozens of countries took the Programme for International Student Assessment last year.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of dozens

Noun

Not long after boarding a city bus in central Vienna, the grand buildings and busy streets of Austria’s capital gave way to wooded hills and rows of grapevines.

— Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2026
Aerial footage showed flames burning through the dense vegetation in the hills above the iconic museum complex.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026