Coast Range
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5.6
- proper noun
- /koʊst reɪndʒ/
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Cordillera del Pacífico
- The Coast Range stretches from Alaska to northern Mexico, offering stunning views of the Pacific coast.
- Oregon Coast Range
- California Coast Range
- foothills of the Coast Range
Examples
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As he drove over the Coast Range, the puzzle became clearer; the answer seemed right.
Fiction book (1994) -
I remember worrying about the animals we left behind, but once we turned east on the Portland highway, all I could think about was what lay beyond the Coast Range.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the Coast Range, there were falling places, areas of black.
Fiction book (1990) -
What we found east of the divide of the Coast Range was a desert.
Fiction book (1990) -
He does not know which town is in the Coast Range of Oregon.
Fiction book (1998) -
A huge trough running north and south, a hundred miles wide, bracketed by the Coast Range on the west and the Cascades on the east.
Fiction book (1990) -
But in my memory, the tower appears to glow brick red and dwarf the mountains of Oregon's Coast Range in the background.
Academic text (2007) -
This annual herb is endemic to serpentine seeps in the Coast Range of Northern California.
Academic text (1998) -
" Once we crossed back over the summit of the Coast Range, we were in a living forest again, and we bathed in a cold mountain stream and feasted on trout.
Fiction book (1990) -
Set in a bowl of farmland and forest between the Cascades and the Coast Range, the town, population 16,000, had lots of unpaved streets and not a single traffic light.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
A long range of high mountains along the Pacific coast of North America
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning—a chain of mountains located by the coast—is directly derivable from 'coast' (land beside the sea) + 'range' (a chain of mountains); the compound simply labels a mountain range on the coast. Because this is a literal, compositional place-name with clear cross-linguistic parallels, a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Coast Range comes from a simple picture: a long range of mountains running right beside the coast. So it means the chain of mountains 'along the coast', like the ranges that run down the Pacific shore.