Sierra Nevada

[see-er-uh nuh-vad-uh, -vah-duh, syer-rah ne-vah-thah]

noun

1. a mountain range in E California. Highest peak, Mt. Whitney, 14,495 feet (4,420 meters).

2. a mountain range in S Spain. Highest peak, Mulhacén, 11,420 feet (3,480 meters).

Sierra Nevada

noun

1. a mountain range in E California, parallel to the Coast Ranges. Highest peak: Mount Whitney, 4418 m (14 495 ft)

2. a mountain range in SE Spain, mostly in Granada and Almería provinces. Highest peak: Cerro de Mulhacén, 3478 m (11 411 ft)

Sierra Nevada

1. Mountain range in eastern California.

Location of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the United States outside of Alaska.

Example Sentences

For one, it’s isolated from the heart of giant sequoia territory located in the southern Sierra Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times

Argentine students have come to California to see the birds and explore their habitat at the base of the Sierra Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times

In the Sierra Nevada, private lands used for logging are more likely to experience high-severity fire that devastates forest ecosystems compared to public lands like National Forests.

From Los Angeles Times

Shasta and the Sierra Nevada, rivers course down to the valley floor, to vast fields of rice, endless orchards of peaches and golden, rolling grassland full of more cows than people.

From Los Angeles Times

While true for the Sierra Nevada, much of coastal California has the opposite problem.

From Los Angeles Times