mountain pass
Noun
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The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks (synset 109409735)
"we got through the pass before it started to snow"is a type of: location - a point or extent in spacesubtypes:specific instances:
- brenner pass - an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions
- cumberland gap - a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west
- donner pass - a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died
- khyber pass - a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India
is a part of: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains - a series of hills or mountains
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