KHYBER PASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Khyber Pass mean? 

• KHYBER PASS (noun)
  The noun KHYBER PASS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: KHYBER PASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KHYBER PASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

mountain pass; notch; pass (the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks)

Holonyms ("Khyber Pass" 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)

Hindu Kush; Hindu Kush Mountains (a mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayas)