Definitions for Sierra

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Sierra si·er·ra

Spelling: [see-er-uh]

IPA: /siˈɛr ə/

Sierra is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in Sierra (aeirrs).

Definitions for Sierra

noun

1. a chain of hills or mountains, the peaks of which suggest the teeth of a saw.
2. any of several Spanish mackerels of the genus Scomberomorus, especially S. sierra, found in western North America.
3. a word used in communications to represent the letter S.

Origin of Sierra

1590-1600; Spanish: literally, saw Latin serra

Examples for Sierra

Behind them and off to the right was the gray rampart of the sierra.

And now, sierra Leoneans will face jail time if caught burying Ebola victims.

In the meantime the newspapers were read at sierra Vista, not so much with interest as with anxiety.

Chernon Bah, co-founder of A World at School, was alarmed by what she witnessed recently in sierra Leone.

And outside he went, like a king, with all sierra Vista about him and tending on him.

sierra Vista was a far vaster affair than the tepee of Grey Beaver.

People on the streets of Havana cheered and celebrated the return of fighters from the sierra Maestra.

Father José Julián was shot and wounded driving in a car through the sierra of Ajuchitán.

The troops returned to sierra Leone on the 24th of December.

In Liberia, the number is just over 54 percent—sierra Leone, 67 percent.