Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun black_hills

2 senses of black hills

Sense 1
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)
       INSTANCE OF=> range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains -- (a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range")

Sense 2
Black Hills -- (mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming)
       INSTANCE OF=> mountain, mount -- (a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill)