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

  • A mountainous region of Central Asia mostly in Tajikistan with extensions in northern Afghanistan, northern Kashmir, and western China. The Pamirs rise to 7,495 m (24,590 ft) at Ismoil Somoni Peak.

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  • proper noun A mountain range in Central Asia.
  • proper noun A group of languages spoken in the Pamir mountains.

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Examples

  • Prince Hohenlohe -- aiming, and for a time with some partial success, at re-establishing friendly relations with Russia, the advantages of a good understanding between Great Britain and Germany were obvious; for hardly had the difficulties on the North-West frontiers of India been for the time quieted by the "Pamir" Treaty of 1895, [Footnote: This Treaty was made while Lord Kimberley was Foreign Secretary.] when the war between

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • The Oxus was swift, cold, and deep because it was fed by melting snows at its headwaters in the high Pamir Mountains to the east.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The Oxus was swift, cold, and deep because it was fed by melting snows at its headwaters in the high Pamir Mountains to the east.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • With government funding, Mr. Porshnev launched a Soviet Snowperson Commission that after 1958 trudged through the Pamir Mountains of modern-day Tajikistan and the Caucasus region.

    Bigfoot Hunters Detect Signs of the Hairy Beast in Siberia Alan Cullison 2011

  • The Oxus was swift, cold, and deep because it was fed by melting snows at its headwaters in the high Pamir Mountains to the east.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • I had crossed one of the longest of them from its origin at 4500 m altitude to its tongue at 3500 m, a Zeravshan glacier in Pamir region.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • In the village, he found a mosque with an adjacent house, about 40 Afghan-assembled Pamir motorbikes parked outside.

    Taliban takes hold in once-peaceful northern Afghanistan 2010

  • In the village, he found a mosque and an adjacent house, with about 40 Afghan-assembled Pamir motorbikes outside.

    Taliban takes hold in once-peaceful northern Afghanistan 2010

  • Save for the good work of the Aga Khan Development Network in the greater Badakhshan-Pamir region, it is otherwise an area of sore neglect and heavy corruption overwhelmed by Afghan narcotics trafficking networks.

    Derek Flood: From Totalitarianism to Turbines: The Unending Struggle for Power in Central Asia 2010

  • The aircraft on the Kabul-Kunduz route appeared to lack heating or air conditioning, said Cristina Hernandez, a consultant in Kunduz with the German nonprofit group GTZ, who often took Pamir flights between the two cities.

    Plane Crashes in Afghanistan 2010

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