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Pennine Alps

[ pen-ahyn ]

plural noun

  1. a mountain range on the border between Switzerland and Italy: part of the Alps. Highest peak, Monte Rosa, 15,217 feet (4,640 meters).


Pennine Alps

/ ˈpɛnaɪn /

plural noun

  1. a range of the Alps between Switzerland and Italy. Highest peak: Monte Rosa, 4634 m (15 204 ft)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The name evidently contains the Keltic word pen, and signifies probably some sacred mountain-top amongst the Pennine Alps.

Glaucophane-eclogites have been met with in Italy and the Pennine Alps.

Clouds formed on the Italian side and invaded the valleys of the Pennine Alps without veiling their summits.

On the left, the Pennine Alps and the Oberland, crowned with snow, raised their magnificent crests.

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