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MOUNT ARARAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Mount Ararat mean?
• MOUNT ARARAT (noun)
The noun MOUNT ARARAT has 1 sense:
1. the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded
Familiarity information: MOUNT ARARAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Ararat; Mount Ararat; Mt. Ararat
Instance hypernyms:
mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)
Holonyms ("Mount Ararat" is a part of...):
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)
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