Ararat

[ ar-uh-rat ]

noun

1. a mountain in E Turkey, near the borders of Iran and Armenia: traditionally considered the landing place of Noah's Ark. 16,945 feet (5,165 meters).

Ararat

/ ˈærəˌræt /

noun

1. an extinct volcanic mountain massif in E Turkey: two main peaks; Great Ararat 5155 m (16 916 ft), said to be the resting place of Noah's Ark after the Flood (Genesis 8:4), and Little Ararat 3914 m (12 843 ft)

Ararat

1. The mountain upon which Noah 's ark came to rest as the waters of the great flood receded. ( See Noah and the Flood .)

Example Sentences

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

From The Daily Beast

The biblical term is the mountains of Ararat or Urartu, and the term includes the whole of the Hakkiari range.

From Project Gutenberg

When these lines are delivered to you, I shall be on the route to Ararat.

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They look as if quite recently emitted, and no one would imagine from their appearance that Ararat had been extinct so long.

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All the time she chatted about the Ararat Extra Light and the photograph of her that would appear in the papers on the morrow.

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Without stopping to think that the Ararat sleeve was wet and Amory dry, she suddenly passed her arm about her.

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