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mountain

Definition for mountain

noun as in very large hill

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alp, bluff, butte, cliff, crag, elevation, eminence, height, mesa, mount, palisade, peak, pike, precipice, range, ridge, sierra, tor, volcano

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abundance, drift, glob, heap, hump, mass, mound, pile, stack, ton

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There is a mountain of paperwork to be done, the bane of every cop.

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Anticipating the Thanksgiving holiday and mountains of leftover turkey sandwiches to come, Kraft Heinz this month began selling its Heinz Homestyle Turkey Gravy with a new, squeezable bottle.

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ABHA, Saudi Arabia — From the air, Abha’s mountains emerge as a shock of emerald green rising from a sea of sand.

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Meanwhile, there’s nowhere to store the mountains of soybeans.

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She is 20 years old and from Summersville, a small community in the mountains of West Virginia.

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