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HINDU KUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayas
Synonyms:
Hindu Kush; Hindu Kush Mountains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)
Meronyms (parts of "Hindu Kush"):
Khyber Pass (a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India)
Tirich Mir (a mountain in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan (25,230 feet high))
Holonyms ("Hindu Kush" is a part of...):
Afghanistan; Islamic State of Afghanistan (a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south)
Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
