PYRENEES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pyrenees mean? 

• PYRENEES (noun)
  The noun PYRENEES has 1 sense:

1. a chain of mountains between France and Spain

  Familiarity information: PYRENEES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYRENEES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chain of mountains between France and Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Pyrenees" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

I rave: perhaps at this moment he is watching the sun rise over the Pyrenees, or on the tideless sea of the south.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Among the Alps and Pyrenees, perhaps, there were no mixed characters.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

These are the average heights, but some Pyrenees are as much as 40 inches (1 meter) Weight: from 85 pounds (38kg.)

(Great Pyrenees, NCI Thesaurus)

It was on a Monday that the Duke of Lancaster's division passed safely through the Pyrenees.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Anatolian Shepherd Dog is a large dog similar to the Great Pyrenees and the Kuvasz, but more slender.

(Anatolian Shepherd Dog, NCI Thesaurus)

For the current study, Büntgen and his collaborators, sampled more than 1100 living and dead mountain pines from the Spanish Pyrenees and 660 Siberian larch samples from the Russian Altai: both high-elevation forest sites that have been undisturbed for thousands of years.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

The Great Pyrenees is a very large animal with a solid muscular body.

(Great Pyrenees, NCI Thesaurus)

Of the Alps and Pyrenees, with their pine forests and their vices, they might give a faithful delineation; and Italy, Switzerland, and the south of France might be as fruitful in horrors as they were there represented.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)