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  • proper noun same as Kanchenjunga.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a mountain the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Tibet (28,208 feet high)

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Examples

  • Kinchinjunga, which is forty-five miles distant, is 28,156 feet high, and also, in the immediate vicinity, are the following:

    Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880

  • At its junction with the Thlonok, it comes down a steep gulley from the north, foreshortened into a cataract 1000 feet high, and appearing the smaller stream of the two; whilst the Thlonok winds down from the snowy face of Kinchinjunga, which is seen up the valley, bearing

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Kinchinjunga and Everest, and all the other majestic heights; seen, too, in all their phases of cloud and mist, of perfectly clear blue sky, and of sunrise and sunset effects.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • Kinchinjunga: only Michael Angelo among men could have conceived such grandeur.

    The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

  • Three of them should be remembered, for they are so well known: Mount Everest, which, with its 29,000 feet, is the very highest summit in the world; Kinchinjunga (28,200 feet), and

    From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

  • If we travel by rail from Calcutta up to Sikkim we see the snow-clad crest of the Himalayas in front and above us, and Kinchinjunga like a dazzling white pinnacle surmounting the whole.

    From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

  • And the very emblem of the aspiration of Nature kept in hand and under control is to be found in that proud pinnacle of the Sikkim Himalaya, Kinchinjunga, as it is seen from Darjiling rising from amidst the rich tropical forests which clothe its base.

    The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

  • Kinchinjunga, serene and calm and flushed with the rose of the setting sun.

    The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

  • But long afterwards a glow still remains on Kinchinjunga.

    The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

  • There is about Kinchinjunga the calm and repose of stupendous upward effort successfully achieved.

    The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

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