EVEREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Everest mean? 

• EVEREST (noun)
  The noun 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: EVEREST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 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 ("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)

 Context examples 

Since 1953, many successful expeditions have climbed Mt. Everest, including the first American expedition in 1963.

(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

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)

On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, became the first humans to successfully climb to the peak of Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But following the Chinese Revolution in 1949, this route to the mountain was closed and so Mt. Everest expeditions had to explore new routes to reach the peak.

(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)