Alps

[ alps ]

plural noun

1. a mountain range in S Europe, extending from France through Switzerland and Italy into Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia. Highest peak, Mont Blanc, 15,781 feet (4,810 meters).

Alps

/ ælps /

plural noun

1. a mountain range in S central Europe, extending over 1000 km (650 miles) from the Mediterranean coast of France and NW Italy through Switzerland, N Italy, and Austria to Slovenia. Highest peak: Mont Blanc, 4807 m (15 771 ft)
2. a range of mountains in the NW quadrant of the moon, which is cut in two by a straight fracture, the Alpine Valley

Alps

1. Mountain system of south-central Europe .

Notes

The Alps provide scenic beauty and the location for an abundance of winter sports, making them a popular tourist destination.

Example Sentences

When urban aristocrats from London and Paris first arrived in the Alps en masse in the late 1800s, they felt a magnetic draw to climb them.

From Outside Online

Well before Plummer’s Captain von Trapp escapes across the Alps with his family, his priorities have shifted.

From Washington Post

In the 1990s, the summer freezing level was typically around 11,000 feet, but in 2003, it was closer to 13,000 feet, according to Fondazione Courmayeur Mont Blanc, an organization supporting research on the Alps.

From Outside Online

Even the most experienced climbers are now struggling with increasingly perilous conditions in the Alps.

From Outside Online

If humans make only modest cuts to pollution, the Alps are expected to warm by close to another six degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, according to a review of climate research.

From Outside Online

Worries about a last ditch Nazi stand in the Alps had mounted appreciably over the final year of the war.

From The Daily Beast

Their vista of the snow-capped Andes suggests the Bavarian alps and the view from Berchtesgaden.

From The Daily Beast

Then I realized [we were] outside of Italy when I recognized the Alps.

From The Daily Beast

Subirer, for example, is a small bitter pear that grows in the Alps, near Lech.

From The Daily Beast

And so the world was shocked and saddened to hear about his severe brain injury in the Alps last Sunday morning.

From The Daily Beast

Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.

From Project Gutenberg

Bonaparte passed mount St. Bernard, among the Alps, after astonishing efforts.

From Project Gutenberg

The Marshal was at once sent off to his old home of Lyons to organise there out of nothing an army which was to cover the Alps.

From Project Gutenberg

He hoped to find a temporary refuge by burying himself among the lonely passes of the Alps.

From Project Gutenberg

At forty years of age she still preserved almost all her freshness and could be called "the little Shepherdess of the Alps."

From Project Gutenberg

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