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Everest   /ˈɛvərəst/  /ˈɛvrəst/   Listen
Everest

noun
1.
A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high).  Synonyms: Mount Everest, Mt. Everest.






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"Everest" Quotes from Famous Books



... also used at times to carry bags of borax to market near the plains, where they are shorn of their fleece, and return to the mountains laden with salt. The culminating point of the range, and the highest peak in the world, is Mount Everest, a little more than twenty-nine thousand feet above the level of the sea; but it is rarely visible from Darjeeling. In an unsuccessful attempt to ascend Kinchinjunga not long since, an English physician very nearly lost his life, and was obliged ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou



Words linked to "Everest" :   Himalaya, Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal, mountain peak, Tibet, Kingdom of Nepal, Thibet, Mount Everest, Xizang, Sitsang



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