THIBET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thibet mean? 

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

1. an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIBET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sitsang; Thibet; Tibet; Xizang

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Thibet"):

capital of Tibet; Forbidden City; Lassa; Lhasa (the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers)

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

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 "Thibet"):

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

Domain member region:

Lamaism; Tibetan Buddhism (a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism)

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

Holonyms ("Thibet" 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 

They are sent everywhere, to the heart of Africa, like Stanley, or to interview the Pope, or to explore unknown Thibet.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)