Everest

American  

[ev-er-ist, ev-rist] / ˈɛv ər ɪst, ˈɛv rɪst /

noun

1. 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).

2. high point; summit.

   The book is an Everest in the field of historical scholarship.

3. a male given name.

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Everest British  

/ ˈɛvərɪst /

noun

1. Nepalese name: Sagarmatha. Chinese names: Qomolangma, Chomolungma. 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)

2. any high point of ambition or achievement

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Etymology

Origin of Everest

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

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Example Sentences

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Everest

In 2019, a photo of climbers lined up to summit Mount Everest went viral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Everest — like lowering a crane into an icefall crevasse by helicopter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

It documents ski mountaineer Jim Morrison on his Everest quest after the shocking death of his partner Hilaree Nelson on a training run on another mountain in Nepal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

We really went into that on “Sam’s Town” — we climbed Everest, man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Demarcating the Nepal-Tibet border, towering more than 12,000 feet above the valleys at its base, Everest looms as a threesided pyramid of gleaming ice and dark, striated rock.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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