CASCADE RANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cascade Range mean? 

• CASCADE RANGE (noun)
  The noun CASCADE RANGE has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range

  Familiarity information: CASCADE RANGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASCADE RANGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Cascade Mountains; Cascade Range; Cascades

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Cascade Range"):

Mount Saint Helens; Mount St. Helens; Mt. St. Helens (an active volcano in the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington; erupted violently in 1980 after 123 years of inactivity)

Adams; Mount Adams (a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high))

Mount Rainier; Mount Tacoma; Mt. Rainier; Rainier (a mountain peak in central Washington; highest peak in the Cascade Range; (14,410 feet high))

Holonyms ("Cascade Range" is a part of...):

Northwest; northwestern United States (the northwestern region of the United States)

Coast Mountains; Coast Range (a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California)