Everest

[ ev-er-ist, ev-rist ]

/ ˈɛv ər ɪst, ˈɛv rɪst /

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noun

Mount, a mountain in S Asia, on the boundary between Nepal and Tibet, in the Himalayas: the highest mountain in the world. 29,028 feet (8,848 meters).

high point; summit: The book is an Everest in the field of historical scholarship.

a male given name.

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Words nearby Everest

ever, ever and again, everbearing, everblooming, Everdur, Everest, Everett, everglade, Everglades, Everglades National Park, Evergood

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How to use Everest in a sentence

Buy the bookI know, I know, you’ve read a billion Everest books.
The 2020 Sweat Science Holiday Book List|Alex Hutchinson|December 16, 2020|Outside Online
Now, a new study presents the most detailed view of Everest’s glacier changes in the last 60 years.
Cold War-era satellites bring bad news about melting glaciers around Everest|María Paula Rubiano A.|November 23, 2020|Popular-Science
Until this week, scientists knew very little about how Everest’s glaciers behaved in the time before the 2000s.
Cold War-era satellites bring bad news about melting glaciers around Everest|María Paula Rubiano A.|November 23, 2020|Popular-Science
The scientists also found plastics in three of eight samples of stream water from Everest.
Plastics are showing up in the world’s most remote places, including Mount Everest|Carolyn Wilke|November 20, 2020|Science News

Jornet, 32, writes about his Everest experience, and more, in his new memoir, Above the Clouds, which came out last month.
Kilian Jornet Has a New Book on His Epic Everest Quest|Nick Heil|September 29, 2020|Outside Online
It reached the lowest point of the Mariana Trench in 2009, which is thousands of meters lower than Mount Everest is tall.
Lost Ocean Rover Leaves Gap in Biology and Alzheimer's Research|Beenish Ahmed|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The anti-gun contingent stands before an Everest of obstacles, a wall of patriotic babble about Second Amendment privileges.
As Parents We’re All Gun Violence Cowards|William Giraldi|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The airplane flew at an altitude higher than that of Mount Everest—about 38,000 feet compared to Everest at 29,000 feet.
How to Hitchhike a Plane—and Survive|Kent Sepkowitz|April 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At this writing, 334 permits to climb Everest have been issued for this spring season.
Everest's Sherpas Are Right To Revolt|Dick Dorworth|April 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Changing the system that creates these dynamics is a much bigger issue than the climbing business of Mount Everest.
Everest's Sherpas Are Right To Revolt|Dick Dorworth|April 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hence we see that Mount Everest being 29,002 feet high must be more than five miles high.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
If weather conditions were favourable, they might, we thought, see how high they could get on Mount Everest itself.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
These were the Alpine climbers and their coolies returning after their strenuous efforts on Mount Everest.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
My ambition was to reach the ridge between Makalu and Everest, and from it to have a look right down into Nepal.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
On the opposite side Mount Everest stood out with every detail showing clearly in the autumn sunshine.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

British Dictionary definitions for Everest

Everest

/ (ˈɛvərɪst) /

noun

Mount Everest a mountain in S Asia on the border between Nepal and Tibet, in the Himalayas: the highest mountain in the world; first climbed by members of a British-led expedition (1953). Height: established as 8848 m (29 028 ft) for many years, but the latest of a series of more recent reassessments (in 1999), not currently accepted by all authorities or by either of the controlling governments, puts it at 8850 m (29 035 ft)Nepalese name: Sagarmatha Chinese names: Qomolangma, Chomolungma

any high point of ambition or achievement

Word Origin for Everest

C19: named after Sir G. Everest (1790–1866), Surveyor-General of India

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