MOUNT SINAI

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments

Synonyms:

Mount Sinai; Sinai

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Mount Sinai" is a part of...):

Sinai; Sinai Peninsula (a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea)

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