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MOUNT ARARAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mount Ararat mean? 

MOUNT ARARAT (noun)
  The noun MOUNT ARARAT has 1 sense:

1. the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood recededplay

  Familiarity information: MOUNT ARARAT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOUNT ARARAT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Ararat; Mount Ararat; Mt. Ararat

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

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

Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)


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