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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A peak, 8,167 m (26,795 ft) high, in the Himalaya Mountains of west-central Nepal. It was first scaled in 1960.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun proper name a mountain in Nepal, 26,810 feet high.

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  • noun a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (26,820 feet high)

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Examples

  • Dhaulagiri, Annapurna, Manaslu and, not nearly so high but far more beautiful, the double pyramid of Machhapuchhre.

    Simply Because It's There? 2010

  • An undated handout picture from Yeti Project Japan, received on October 20, 2008, shows what is alleged to be the footprint of a Yeti (left) measured on the Dhaulagiri mountain and compared to a human footprint (right).

    Japanese Team Finds ‘Yeti Footprints’ In Nepal | Disinformation 2008

  • The Inner Himalayas are where the imposing, giant peaks such as Everest, Makalu, and Dhaulagiri tower far above the Deccan Plateau.

    Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests 2008

  • The latter contain the tallest peaks on Earth, such as Everest, Makalu, and Dhaulagiri.

    Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests 2008

  • While these divisions are largely artificial, the deep defile carved by the antecedent Kali Gandaki River between the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri mountains has been an effective dispersal barrier to many species.

    Biological diversity in the Himalayas 2008

  • Within it are the tallest mountains in the world-Everest, Makalu, Dhaulagiri, and Jomalhari-which tower far above the Gangetic Plains.

    Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows 2008

  • The next is the Middle Himalayas, representing a series of ridges and valleys that rise to about 5,000 meters (m), and the third is the Inner Himalayas with imposing high peaks such as Everest, Makalu, and Dhaulagiri.

    Himalayan subtropical pine forests 2008

  • The third is the Inner Himalayas, which contain the tallest mountains in the world: Everest, Makalu, Dhaulagiri, and Jomalhari.

    Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests 2007

  • While Lachenal rubbed himself hard, I looked at the summits all around us; already we overtopped them all except the distant Dhaulagiri.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • These are the northward wall of a towering wilderness of ice and snow which clambers southward higher and wilder and vaster to the culminating summits of our globe, to Dhaulagiri and Everest.

    The World Set Free Herbert George 1914

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