HILLARY

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

1. New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)

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

• HILLARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edmund Hillary; Hillary; Sir Edmund Hillary; Sir Edmund Percival Hillary

Instance hypernyms:

mountain climber; mountaineer (someone who climbs mountains)

 Context examples 

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)

Indeed, both clinical and preclinical studies report that females require almost twice as much morphine as males to produce comparable pain relief, said Hillary Doyle, graduate student in the Murphy Laboratory in the Neuroscience Institute of Georgia State.

(Why Women May Feel More Pain Than Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)