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SHERPA
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• SHERPA (noun)
The noun SHERPA has 1 sense:
1. a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers
Familiarity information: SHERPA used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Sherpa" is a kind of...):
Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)
Instance hyponyms:
Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986))
Holonyms ("Sherpa" is a member 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)
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