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mountain

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montaña
feminine noun
1. mountain
  • pasaremos el verano en la montaña -> we'll spend summer in the mountains
  • una montaña de (informal) -> piles of (un montón de)
  • tengo una montaña de papeles sobre mi mesa -> I've got a mountain of papers on my desk
  • hacer una montaña de algo (figurative) -> to make a big thing of something
  • hacer una montaña de un grano de arena (figurative) -> to make a mountain out of a molehill
  • Montañas Rocosas -> Rocky Mountains
  • montaña rusa -> roller coaster

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montaña [mon-tah’-nyah]
noun
1. Mountain, mount. (f)
verb
2. MONTE.
3. Forest (selva). (Caribbean)
4. Virgin jungle (selva virgen). (Ante Meridian & Central America) (m)
noun, plural
5. Highlands; a ridge of mountains.
  • Montaña rusa -> roller coaster

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montaña
1 (monte) mountain
una montaña de papeles a mountain of papers; montaña de mantequilla butter mountain
hacer una montaña de un granito de arena to make a mountain out of a molehill
montaña rusa roller coaster; big dipper
Montañas Rocosas Rocky Mountains
2 (zona) (sierra) mountains
plural
; (p)
pasamos un mes en la montaña we spent a month in the mountains
3 (Latinoamérica) (bosque) forest
montaña del Pirineo Pyrenean mountain dog; Great Pyrenees; (EEUU)

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