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GREAT DIVIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
That part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
divide; water parting; watershed (a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems)
Holonyms ("Great Divide" is a part of...):
continental divide (the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico))