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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nepal mean? 

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

1. a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEPAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kingdom of Nepal; Nepal

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Nepal"):

capital of Nepal; Kathmandu; Katmandu (the capital and largest city of Nepal)

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))

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)

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))

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

Meronyms (members of "Nepal"):

Nepalese; Nepali (a native or inhabitant of Nepal)

Sherpa (a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers)

Domain member region:

khukuri (a curved steel knife with a razor-sharp edge used in combat by the Gurkhas; has cultural and religious significance in Nepal)

Hindooism; Hinduism (the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal)

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

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

 Context examples 

A country in southern Asia, between China and India, east of Nepal and north of Bangladesh.

(Bhutan, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Nepal, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Nepalese, NCI Thesaurus)

Another project that began in March in Nepal and Cameroon, Snake-Byte, is looking to understand the epidemiology and impact of snakebite.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

The most affected countries are Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan though arsenic pollution is also present in China, parts of Europe and the Americas.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

Following the April 25 earthquake in Nepal, two prototype FINDER devices were deployed to support search and rescue teams in the stricken areas.

(DHS and NASA Technology Helps Save Four in Nepal Earthquake Disaster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The April 25, 2015, magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal created waves of energy that penetrated into Earth's upper atmosphere in the vicinity of Nepal, disturbing the distribution of electrons in the ionosphere.

(GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, NASA)

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)

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)

These disturbances were monitored using signals transmitted by the Global Positioning System (GPS) that were received by a science-quality GPS receiver located in a neighboring region to Nepal.

(GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, NASA)

Four men trapped under as much as 10 feet of bricks, mud and other debris have been rescued in Nepal thanks to a new search-and-rescue technology developed in partnership by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

(DHS and NASA Technology Helps Save Four in Nepal Earthquake Disaster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)