HIMALAYAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Himalayas mean? 

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

1. a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIMALAYAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Himalaya; Himalaya Mountains; Himalayas

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Meronyms (parts of "Himalayas"):

Anapurna; Annapurna (a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (26,500 feet high))

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

Dhaulagiri (a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (26,820 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))

Kamet (a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high))

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))

Nanda Devi (a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,660 feet high))

Nanga Parbat (a mountain in the Himalayas in Kashmir (26,660 feet high))

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

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

Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

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)

Derivation:

Himalayan (of or relating to the Himalayas)

 Context examples 

The pace of warming in the Himalayas is significantly higher than the global average and the glacial melt happening faster than in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

Rising temperatures will cause at least a third of the ice in the Himalayas to vanish by the end of the century, endangering the lives and livelihoods of nearly two billion people who are dependent on glacier-fed rivers for their water resources.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

The extended Himalayas, also known as the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) area, includes several of the world’s highest mountains that are strung out over 3,600 kilometres across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)