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ALTAY MOUNTAINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Altay Mountains mean? 

ALTAY MOUNTAINS (noun)
  The noun ALTAY MOUNTAINS has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range in central Asia that extends a thousand miles from Kazakhstan eastward into western Mongolia and northern Chinaplay

  Familiarity information: ALTAY MOUNTAINS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALTAY MOUNTAINS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range in central Asia that extends a thousand miles from Kazakhstan eastward into western Mongolia and northern China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Altai Mountains; Altay Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Holonyms ("Altay Mountains" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)


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