alp
a high mountain.
Origin of alp
1Words Nearby alp
Other definitions for A.L.P. (2 of 2)
American Labor Party.
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How to use alp in a sentence
alp casualty rates are said to be double those of the Afghan National Army and National Police.
Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn many villages, peasants have a hard time telling the difference between the alp and the many arbakai.
Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOver the past six months at least 180 alp officers have been killed.
Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe official adds that young boys, too, are not immune from sexual assault by the alp and arbakai.
Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe says they were wearing the khaki-colored uniforms of the alp.
Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
They always treated me as though I were an invalid; and kept me for a year or two squatting on an alp on account of my lungs.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonGrimm has recorded that in old German, the caterpillar was named Alba, and that the alp often takes the form of a butterfly.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyHermione blushed like an alp-rose in the snow, and turned her head away from him.
Paul Patoff | F. Marion CrawfordIt was a lovely morning, though alp-like masses of cloud in the distance gave promise of thunder.
Forging the Blades | Bertram MitfordIn the "Voyages" we find the most correct delineation, in words and sketches, of the peculiarities and glories of alp-land.
British Dictionary definitions for alp (1 of 2)
/ (ælp) /
(in the European Alps) an area of pasture above the valley bottom but below the mountain peaks
a high mountain
Origin of alp
1- See also Alps, Australian Alps
British Dictionary definitions for ALP (2 of 2)
Australian Labor Party
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