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arete
1[ ahr-i-tey ]
noun
- the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character:
Our greatest national heroes not only did extraordinary things, but had enormous arete.
arête
2[ uh-reyt ]
noun
- a sharp rugged mountain ridge, produced by glaciation.
arête
/ əˈrɛt; əˈreɪt /
noun
- a sharp ridge separating two cirques or glacial valleys in mountainous regions
arête
/ ə-rāt′ /
- A sharp, narrow ridge or spur commonly found above the snow line in mountainous areas that have been sculpted by glaciers. Arêtes form as the result of the continued backward erosion of adjoining cirques.
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Example Sentences
We were now on the arête but a very short distance from the summit.
Going up the Arête the pause between each step, whilst the alpenstock was being driven in, was sufficiently long to afford a rest.
To his gigantic size and strength he united the sureness of a cat in climbing up or down a mountain arête.
If we fell from the arête we might not stop going for four thousand feet.
The summit, says Javelle, is only the culminating point of a sharp, notched arête about a hundred meters long.
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