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Himalayas
[ him-uh-ley-uhz, hi-mahl-yuhz ]
plural noun
- the Himalayas, a mountain range extending about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8,848 meters).
Himalayas
/ hɪˈmɑːljəz; ˌhɪməˈleɪəz /
plural noun
- the Himalayasa vast mountain system in S Asia, extending 2400 km (1500 miles) from Kashmir (west) to Assam (east), between the valleys of the Rivers Indus and Brahmaputra: covers most of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the S edge of Tibet; the highest range in the world, with several peaks over 7500 m (25 000 ft). Highest peak: Mount Everest, 8848 m (29 028 ft)
Notes
Other Words From
- Hima·layan adjective
- sub-Him·a·layan adjective
- trans-Him·a·layan adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of Himalayas1
Example Sentences
Next step: Sykes will trek in the Himalayas to discover a live yeti.
A group of mountaineers in the Himalayas died in a horrifying massacre.
Temperatures throughout the Himalayas are, on average, rising, and the mountains are falling apart in the warming atmosphere.
I saw there a fine collection of stuffed birds, which he had brought himself from the Himalayas.
But just now it's rather like offering to give a freezing man the sunlit Himalayas from end to end in return for his camp-fire.
The scenery of the Himalayas, ice and snow, storm and tempest, lend their majesty to the strains of the Vedic poet.
The original product is found only high up on the sides of the loftiest mountains in the world—the Himalayas of India.
They rear themselves beneath and around me as the lesser peaks of the Himalayas seen from Mount Everest.
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