mountain pass

Noun
  1. 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 space
    subtypes:
    • col, gap - a pass between mountain peaks
    • defile, gorge - a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
    • saddle, saddleback - a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
    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
    same as: notch, pass

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