Mount Everest
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Mount Everest
- /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹɪst/ UK
- /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹəst/ US
Where it comes from
From mount + Everest, coined by the British army officer and Surveyor General of India Andrew Scott Waugh (1810–1878)—originally as Mont Everest—in a paper of 1 March 1856 to the Royal Geographical Society, after his predecessor George Everest (1790–1866): see the quotation. The name Mount Everest was used in a paper on 27 October 1856 by the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 or 1801 – 1894) and by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871), the President of the Society, at a meeting of the Society on 11 May 1857 at which the two papers were read.
proper noun Everest · Mt Everest · Mt. Everest
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A mountain in the Himalayas, on the border of Solukhumbu district, Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the world's highest mountain above sea level.
[T]he privilege, as well as the duty, devolves on me to assign to this lofty pinnacle of our globe, a name whereby it may be known among geographers and become a household word among civilized nations. In virtue of this privilege, in testimony of my affectionate respect for a revered chief, in confo
Similar: Peak XV, Chomolungma, Chomolangma, Zhumulangma, Chu-mu-lang-ma, Chumulangma, Sagarmatha, Qomolangma, Qomolangma Feng
noun Mount Everests
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An endeavor that is very demanding yet rewarding; also, something which is the highest achievement, challenge, etc.; the epitome, the pinnacle, the ultimate.
We stand on the colossal peak of King Lear, with Othello on our right hand and Macbeth on our left, the sublime masses of Elizabethan mountain country rolling on every side of us, yet plainly dominated by the extraordinary central cluster of aiguilles on which we have planted ourselves. This triple
Similar: acme, apex, zenith, apogee, apotheosis, ascendance, capstone, climax, coronation, crown, culmination, extreme
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name world’s highest mountain above sea level, located in the Himalayas
| Español | Monte Everest |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 에베레스트 Ebereseuteu, 주무랑마 Jumurangma |
| 日本語 | エベレスト Eberesuto, チョモランマ Chomoranma |
| 中文 | 珠穆朗瑪峰 /珠穆朗玛峰 Zhūmùlǎngmǎ-fēng, 聖母峰 /圣母峰 Shèngmǔ-fēng, 額菲爾士峰 /额菲尔士峰 Éfěi'ěrshì-fēng, 埃菲爾士峰 /埃菲尔士峰 Āifěi'ěrshì-fēng, 埃佛勒斯峰 Āifólèsī-fēng |
| हिन्दी | माउंट एवरेस्ट māuṇṭ evresṭ, एवरेस्ट evresṭ |
| Kiswahili | mlima Evarest |
| Português | Monte Evereste, Evereste |
| Français | mont Everest |
| Deutsch | Mount Everest |
| Italiano | monte Everest |
| Ελληνικά | Έβερεστ Éverest |
| Română | Everest, Ciomolungma |
| Русский | Эвере́ст Everést, Джомолу́нгма Džomolúngma |
| العربية | جَبَل إِفْرِسْت jabal ʔifrist, إِفْرِسْت ʔifrist |
| עברית | אוורסט everest |
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