English Explanatory Dictionary

Mount Everest

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A mountain in the Himalayas, on the border of Solukhumbu district, Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the world's highest mountain above sea level.
noun
  1. An endeavor that is very demanding yet rewarding; also, something which is the highest achievement, challenge, etc.; the epitome, the pinnacle, the ultimate.

Pronunciation

/ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹɪst/ /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹəst/ ĕ′vərĭst En-us-Mount Everest.oga

Word forms

Mount Everest Everest Mt Everest Mt. Everest Mount Everests

Etymology

From mount + Everest, coined by the British army officer and Surveyor General of India Andrew Scott Waugh (1810–1878)—originally as Mont Everest—in a paper of 1 March 1856 to the Royal Geographical Society, after his predecessor George Everest (1790–1866): see the quotation. The name Mount Everest was used in a paper on 27 October 1856 by the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 or 1801 – 1894) and by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871), the President of the Society, at a meeting of the Society on 11 May 1857 at which the two papers were read.

Synonyms

Peak XV Chomolungma Chomolangma Zhumulangma Chu-mu-lang-ma Chumulangma Sagarmatha Qomolangma Qomolangma Feng acme apex zenith apogee apotheosis ascendance capstone climax coronation crown culmination Everest extreme fastigium high note high point high tide high-water mark midday outblossom paroxysm perihelion pinnacle summa summit

Derived words

Everester Everest syndrome
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