Mount Rushmore
/ˌmaʊnt ˈrʌʃmɔː(r)/
/ˌmaʊnt ˈrʌʃmɔːr/
- 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.
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
Mount Rushmore