KINCHINJUNGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kinchinjunga mean? 

• KINCHINJUNGA (noun)
  The noun KINCHINJUNGA has 1 sense:

1. a mountain the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Tibet (28,208 feet high)

  Familiarity information: KINCHINJUNGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINCHINJUNGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Tibet (28,208 feet high)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Kanchanjanga; Kanchenjunga; Kinchinjunga; Mount Kanchenjunga

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Kinchinjunga" 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)