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Matterhorn
[ mat-er-hawrn ]
noun
- a mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy, in the Pennine Alps. 14,780 feet (4,505 meters).
Matterhorn
/ ˈmætəˌhɔːn /
noun
- a mountain on the border between Italy and Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. Height: 4477 m (14 688 ft) French nameMont Cervin Italian nameMonte Cervinoˈmonte tʃerˈviːno
Matterhorn
Example Sentences
This far smaller mountain vibrates at a frequency around four times higher than the Matterhorn’s.
The top of the Matterhorn sways more than its base — 14 times more.
The centerpiece of the expedition is the new route Anker and Chin put up Ulvetanna Peak, a 9,600-foot fang named after the Matterhorn.
For the aerial search and rescue team tasked with safeguarding adventurers on the nearly 15,000-foot-tall Matterhorn, perilous conditions, frightening heights, and difficult maneuvers are just part of another day on the job.
As I approached the summit of the Matterhorn Peak last week, I discovered the same sense of concentration.
Recognition is showering down now on Marlantes and Matterhorn, his 592-page debut.
Matterhorn deserves the burgeoning attention and wide readership.
The climactic assault on Matterhorn depicts the chaos, randomness, exhilaration, and tragedies of combat.
He paused, and appeared to be absorbed in contemplation of the distant Matterhorn, then clad in its rosy robe of evening.
To "remind us of Dickens" would be as difficult for many modern novelists as for a molehill to remind us of the Matterhorn.
The Matterhorn never reappeared, but seemed the grimmer monster for this sinister invisibility.
Quite brilliant; but I don't quite know what to say to your letting my baby climb that awful Matterhorn; in a fog, too!
But if the Matterhorn is to be scaled by moonlight you cannot be too warmly clad.
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