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MOUNT EVEREST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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:
Everest; Mount Everest; Mt. Everest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)
Holonyms ("Mount Everest" is a part of...):
Kingdom of Nepal; Nepal (a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China)
Sitsang; Thibet; Tibet; Xizang (an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas)
Himalaya; Himalaya Mountains; Himalayas (a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain)
