noun
a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the likenesses of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt are carved on it
• Syn: ↑Rushmore, ↑Mt. Rushmore
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑mountain peak
• Part Holonyms: ↑Black Hills, ↑South Dakota, ↑Coyote State, ↑Mount Rushmore State, ↑SD
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a high rock cliff in the Black Hills of the US state of ↑South Dakota. It is famous for the very large heads of four US presidents carved in the rock: George ↑Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham ↑Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. The heads are each about 60 feet/18 metres high and were designed by Gutzon Borglum and carved between 1927 and 1941.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.