Saint Gotthard

British  

/ ˈɡɒtəd /

noun

1. a range of the Lepontine Alps in SE central Switzerland

2. a pass over the St Gotthard mountains, in S Switzerland. Height: 2114 m (6935 ft)

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Example Sentences

Before the war, trainload after trainload of Italian goods rolled through the Saint Gotthard and Simplon tunnels to Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Alps the tunnels on the Saint Gotthard railway pass six times beneath the gorge of the Reuss, but at no point do the rocks show the slightest trace of a fault.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

The long railway rides and the great distances of the Simplon and the Saint Gotthard would mean the using up of their scanty earnings.

From The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by Jordan, David Starr

Does my friend look like hopping from India to the Saint Gotthard at one hop?

From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)