MOUNT EVEREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mount Everest mean? 

• MOUNT EVEREST (noun)
  The noun MOUNT EVEREST has 1 sense:

1. a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNT EVEREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Everest; Mount Everest; Mt. Everest

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Mount Everest" 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)