Great Divide

Rocky Mountain spine

The Great Divide is the Continental Divide of the Americas, the mountain ridge separating waters flowing to the Pacific from those flowing to the Atlantic.

Figuratively, any major boundary or point of no return: The election represented a great divide in the nation's politics.

To cross the great divide is to die—passing from life to whatever lies beyond.

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disparity · conflict · schism · elevation · segregation · opposition · bifurcation · afterlife · death · topography · divergence · partition · Rocky Mountains · tectonic plate · drainage system · hydrology · chasm · crossing over

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Opposites
separation vs. connection

Great Dividecommon ground

Points of agreement

bridge · meeting point · union · connection · bond

barrier vs. passage

Great Dividecorridor

Enclosed connecting walkway

gateway · open plain · lowland · passage · thoroughfare

divergence vs. convergence

Great Divideconfluence

Meeting point of streams

convergence · merger · synthesis · conflux · focal point

Family

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