Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: yosemite
IPA transcription: [joʊs'ɛmɪti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Yosemite, Yosemite_Falls
    Meaning: a series of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park in California; is reduced to a trickle for part of each year
Usage examples
  • Down The Yosemite Creek
  • How Best to Spend One's Yosemite Time
  • I never saw her but I thought of the Yosemite.
  • It is in the heart of the High Sierra east of Yosemite, 8500 to 9000 feet above the level of the sea.
  • We come now to the grandest of all the Yosemite excursions, one that requires at least two or three weeks.
  • Mount Hoffman is a mass of gray granite that rises almost in the center of the Yosemite Park, about eight or ten miles in a straight line from the Valley.
  • As on the foregoing excursion, you leave the Valley by the Yosemite Falls trail and follow it to the Tioga wagon-road, a short distance east of Porcupine Flat.
  • The sheer falls, except when the snow is melting in early spring, are quite small in volume as compared with those of Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy; though in any other country many of them would be regarded as wonders.
  • Altogether, I saw about fifteen or sixteen miles of the main trunk. The grade is almost regular, and the walls on either hand are about from two to three thousand feet high, sculptured like those of Yosemite Valley.
  • Three days' advertisements brought in over six hundred and fifty applications, and afterward Edison had no trouble in obtaining all the first-class men he required, as settlers in the artificial Yosemite he was creating.