GREAT DIVIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Divide mean? 

• GREAT DIVIDE (noun)
  The noun GREAT DIVIDE has 1 sense:

1. that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States

  Familiarity information: GREAT DIVIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT DIVIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

divide; water parting; watershed (a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems)

Holonyms ("Great Divide" is a part of...):

continental divide (the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico))