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

1 sense of rocky mountains

Sense 1
Rockies, Rocky Mountains -- (the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide)
       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")