alp

¹ American  

[alp] / ælp /

noun

1. a high mountain.

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A.L.P. ² American  

Or ALP

abbreviation

1. American Labor Party.

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alp ¹ British  

/ ælp /

noun

1. (in the European Alps) an area of pasture above the valley bottom but below the mountain peaks

2. a high mountain

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ALP ² British  

abbreviation

1. Australian Labor Party

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Etymology

Origin of alp

First recorded in 1635–1645; back formation from Alps

Example Sentences

Judd added that she recently walked another alp in Ticino, Switzerland, and went on to note that she has to rebuild her stamina.

From Fox News • Aug. 1, 2021

Back at Hyak, a sunbreak offered a peek across the highway to the Gold Creek valley, with mighty Alaska Mountain at its head, as impressive as a Swiss alp and barely an hour from home.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2021

Even now, crouching beneath extinction’s alp, she remains tenaciously, incorrigibly herself.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2015

Its staging — a ring of silken mashed potatoes around an alp of soft braised meat and lush cabbage — suggests a homey German meal by way of, well, Neuschwanstein Castle.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2015

An 1870s account, quoted in Into the Mountains, observes: “Mt. Lafayette is...a true alp, with peaks and crags on which lightnings play, its sides brown with scars and deep with gorges.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson