Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cascades
IPA transcription: [kæsk'eɪdz]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Cascades, Cascade_Range, Cascade_Mountains
    Meaning: a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range
Usage examples
  • Its falls and cascades are innumerable.
  • Sometimes it would leap down rocky shelves, making small cascades, over which the trees threw their broad balancing sprays and long nameless weeds hung in fringes from the impending banks, dripping with diamond drops.
  • A mile or two above this mountain, on the opposite side of the glacier, there is a rock like the Yosemite Sentinel; and in general all the wall rocks as far as I saw them are more or less yosemitic in form and color and streaked with cascades.