Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain, 8,463 m (27,765 ft) high, in the Himalaya Mountains of northeast Nepal. It was first scaled in 1955.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A mountain in Nepal and Tibet, 27,824 feet high.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
mountain on theborder betweenNepal andChina , the fifth highest in the world.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high)
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Examples
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They could also see the fifth largest mountain in the world, Mount Makalu (8,462m).
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From Gokyo Ri four 8000-metre peaks (Cho Oyu, Everest, Lhotse and Makalu) are visible at once.
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The view from the top is breathtaking: Everest, Lhotse, Makalu and Cho-Oyu in 360 °.
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The view from the top is breathtaking: Everest, Lhotse, Makalu and Cho-Oyu in 360 °.
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The view from the top is breathtaking: Everest, Lhotse, Makalu and Cho-Oyu in 360 °.
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The view from the top is breathtaking: Everest, Lhotse, Makalu and Cho-Oyu in 360 °.
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The view from the top is breathtaking: Everest, Lhotse, Makalu and Cho-Oyu in 360 °.
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To your left you pass Cho Oyu, Mount Everest, and Makalu, each summit spiking in a web of frosted snow and giving way to yet more distant summits, the shining whiteness becoming a filigree of ice trails as your eyes fall to the lower ridges and then to stepped fields and trees—the last great undestroyed forests of the Himalayas.
Vanity Fair - Enter the Dragon King William Harryman 2009
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The image includes views of the famous Khumbu valley as well as Everest's neighboring peaks Lhotse, Changtse, Makalu, and Nupste.
Archive 2009-03-30 Mr. Byrne 2009
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Within it are the tallest mountains in the world-Everest, Makalu, Dhaulagiri, and Jomalhari-which tower far above the Gangetic Plains.
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