Sierra
[sɪ'erə;sɪ'eərə] or [sɪ'ɛrə]
Definition
(noun.) a Spanish mackerel of western North America.
(noun.) a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
Editor: Murdoch--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada.
Typist: Nadine
Definition
n. a ridge of mountains: a scombroid fish.
Inputed by Bobbie
Examples
- He had defended the Sierra well and he wanted to be left alone there to defend it whenever it was attacked. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If we go to the Sierra de Gredos after this of the bridge there are fine streams there for trout and for crayfish also. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The greatest example of all search lights, however, is not to be found on the sea, but in the picturesque altitudes of the Sierra Madres in Southern California. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Perhaps for another pant of the Sierra. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It entered a pass in the Sierra Madre Mountains, at Monterey, through which the main road runs to the City of Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Not the Sierra de Paramera. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You never had it in the Sierra? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You are a long way from how you felt in the Sierra and at Carabanchel and at Usera, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There are the Sierra de Gredos if one leaves here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The fighting in the Sierras had been that way. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To me the place was a vision of the Sierras. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Wendell