Mount Everest

Mount Everest
Mount Ev|er|est [ ,maunt `ev(ə)rəst ]
the highest mountain in the world, in the range of mountains called the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Tibet. It is often simply called Everest.

Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.

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  • Mount Everest — Everest redirects here. For other uses, see Everest (disambiguation). Mount Everest (Qomolongma / Sagarmatha) Highest Mountain in the World …   Wikipedia

  • Mount Everest — Die Nordseite vom Weg zum Basislager aus gesehen Höhe …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Mount Everest — Everest Pour les articles homonymes, voir Everest (homonymie). Everest …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Mount Everest — Mount Eve|rest [ maʊnt ɛvərɪst ], der; : höchster Berg der Erde im Himalaja. * * * Mount Everest   [ maʊnt evərɪst], tibetanisch Chomolụngma [tʃ ], Tschomolụngma, nepalesisch Sagarmatha, der höchste Berg der Erde, nach der Neuvermessung 1992… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Mount Everest — er opkaldt efter den britiske ingeniør Sir George Everest. Han fastlagde i 1841 bjergets geografiske koordinater og højde. Bjerget kan bestiges fra Nepal eller Tibet. Mount Everest top ligger 8.850 meter over havets overflade. I den højde er… …   Danske encyklopædi

  • Mount Everest — →↑Everest …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Mount Everest — (izg. mȁunt èverest) m DEFINICIJA geogr. najviši vrh na Zemlji, I Himalaji, 8848 m, osvojen 1953 …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Mount Everest — (spr. maunt éwwerest), s. Gaurisankar …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Mount Everest — (spr. maunt éww ), der höchste bekannte Berg der Erde, in der südl. Hauptkette des Himalaja [Karte: Asien I, 3], an der Nordgrenze von Nepal 8840 m Hoch; früher fälschlich dem Gaurisankar gleichgesetzt …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Mount Everest — noun a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high) (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑Everest, ↑Mt. Everest • Instance Hypernyms: ↑mountain peak • Part Holonyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • Mount Everest — 1. Everest (def. 1). 2. something regarded as the most difficult or challenging of its kind: the Mount Everest of international sailing. * * * …   Universalium

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