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Pyrenees

[ pir-uh-neez ]

plural noun

  1. a mountain range between Spain and France. Highest peak, Pic de Néthou, 11,165 feet (3,400 meters).


Pyrenees

/ ˌpɪrəˈniːz /

plural noun

  1. a mountain range between France and Spain, extending from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. Highest peak: Pico de Aneto, 3404 m (11 168 ft)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Pyrenees

  1. Mountain chain in southwestern Europe , between France and Spain , extending from the Bay of Biscay on the west to the Mediterranean Sea on the east.


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  • Pyre·nean adjective
  • sub-Pyr·e·nean adjective
  • trans-Pyr·e·nean adjective
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Example Sentences

Andorra is a small country known for its ski areas that is nestled between Spain and France in the Pyrenees.

The Tour de France Femmes noticeably sidesteps the iconic climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees, and it also skips an individual time trial, which is a mainstay in the men’s race.

At the Fuji Park Evacuation Center, about six miles from Carson City Community Center, Dan Barosko and his 138-pound Pyrenees dog Lilie evacuated from his home in South Lake Tahoe on Monday afternoon.

With Franco in power, and still facing reprisals, he fled into exile in Pamiers, France, close to the Pyrenees mountain region near the Spanish border.

Hemingway and his first wife Hadley went from the Basque country to Pamplona over the Pyrenees by bus.

The two women crossed the Pyrenees by foot, ending up in a Spanish jail before being rescued by friends.

He was the fourth son of a peasant proprietor of Lectourne, a little town on the slopes of the Pyrenees.

Incessantly fighting for fifteen days in his retreat towards the Pyrenees, he lost three thousand more of his men.

His immediate recompense was the post of general of brigade in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees.

He was, for this reason, at once elected lieutenant-colonel of the volunteer legion of the Pyrenees.

This alliance was invented by Spain, which will never renounce its project of destroying the boundary of the Pyrenees.

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