Rushmore
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- proper noun
- /ˈrʌʃmɔr/
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Monte Rushmore
- In the background... there's Mount Rushmore.
- Mount Rushmore
- Mt. Rushmore
Now I'm going away for five weeks, going up to South Dakota, going to Mount Rushmore, maybe the Badlands or Wyoming.
- Now I'm going away for five weeks, going up to South Dakota, going to Mount Rushmore, maybe the Badlands or Wyoming.
- I believe that's the Black Hills are over there and you guys have that Mount Rushmore and Mount Rushmore.
- Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore, Devil's Tower, Black Hills, Black Hills are all Badlands.
- The other heads on the Mount Rushmore, though, are Shaquanda's Green Sass, headless horseradish from Torch Bearer.
- We put them on Mount Rushmore, we build monuments to them.
- He, he stayed in that car and then he would get out and be on his cell phone when we were at Rushmore or something like that.
- OK, So what were you going to ask me about Mount Rushmore here?
Examples
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So what should happen to Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills?
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We approached Mount Rushmore late in the day, half an hour before closing.
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None of us had ever seen Mount Rushmore in person before.
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We know it leads to Mount Rushmore.
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There was a big western store in the Mount Rushmore Mall in Rapid City.
Academic text (2017) -
A woman speaks about the reasons she does not want Mount Rushmore to be a tourist attraction.
Blog text (24) -
Now I'm going away for five weeks, going up to South Dakota, going to Mount Rushmore, maybe the Badlands or Wyoming.
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In the first year alone, 27,000 people visited Mount Rushmore, now billed as 'the shrine of democracy.'
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National monuments like Mount Rushmore are expected to reopen for visitors soon.
Synonyms
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A mountain in South Dakota with the carved faces of four US presidents
A mountain with the faces of four US presidents carved into the rock, visited by many people each year
Compounds
A mountain with the faces of four US presidents carved into the rock, visited by many people each year
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rushmore is the name of the mountain and comes from the last name of a New York lawyer, Charles E. Rushmore, who visited the Black Hills in 1885. So it became known as 'Rushmore's mountain', and today Rushmore means the famous mountain with the carved faces of four U.S. presidents.