HIGH SIERRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does High Sierra mean? 

• HIGH SIERRA (noun)
  The noun HIGH SIERRA has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney

  Familiarity information: HIGH SIERRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH SIERRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

High Sierra; Sierra Nevada; Sierra Nevada Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "High Sierra"):

Donner Pass (a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died)

Mount Whitney; Whitney (the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high))

Holonyms ("High Sierra" is a part of...):

CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)