HINDU KUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hindu Kush mean? 

• HINDU KUSH (noun)
  The noun HINDU KUSH has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayas

  Familiarity information: HINDU KUSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HINDU KUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Hindu Kush; Hindu Kush Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Hindu Kush"):

Khyber Pass (a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India)

Tirich Mir (a mountain in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan (25,230 feet high))

Holonyms ("Hindu Kush" is a part of...):

Afghanistan; Islamic State of Afghanistan (a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south)

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

 Context examples 

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)