RUSHMORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rushmore mean? 

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

1. a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the likenesses of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt are carved on it

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUSHMORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the likenesses of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt are carved on it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mount Rushmore; Mt. Rushmore; Rushmore

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

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

Coyote State; Mount Rushmore State; S.D.; SD; South Dakota (a state in north central United States)

Black Hills (mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore)