TIBET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tibet mean? 

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

1. an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIBET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sitsang; Thibet; Tibet; Xizang

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Tibet"):

capital of Tibet; Forbidden City; Lassa; Lhasa (the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers)

Changtzu (a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (24,780 feet high))

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

Gosainthan (a mountain in the Himalayas in Tibet (26,290 feet high))

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)

Kanchanjanga; Kanchenjunga; Kinchinjunga; Mount Kanchenjunga (a mountain the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Tibet (28,208 feet high))

Lhotse (a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high))

Makalu (a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high))

Nuptse (a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (25,726 feet high))

Meronyms (members of "Tibet"):

Sherpa (a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers)

Domain member region:

Lamaism; Tibetan Buddhism (a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism)

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

Holonyms ("Tibet" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Derivation:

Tibetan (of or relating to or characteristic of Tibet or its people or their language)

 Context examples 

I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days with the head lama.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The British made seven attempts to scale Mt. Everest in the previous decades, usually on the North Face from Tibet.

(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new fossil assemblage lends credence to a scenario the scientists call the "Out of Tibet" hypothesis.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

The data show that after the initial earthquake rupture (indicated by the vertical black line) it took about 21 minutes for the earthquake-generated ionospheric disturbance to reach a GPS station (LHAZ), located about 400 miles (640 kilometers) away from the epicenter in Lhasa, Tibet, China.

(GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, NASA)

The scientists, part of a team of geologists and paleontologists led by Xiaoming Wang of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, uncovered fossil specimens of the Tibetan fox in the Zanda Basin in southern Tibet.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

It argues that some Ice Age megafauna—which in North America include the woolly mammoth, saber-toothed cat and giant sloth—used ancient Tibet as a training ground for developing adaptations that allowed them to cope with a harsh climate.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)