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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A high mountain.
  2. n. A very large mound or mass.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An old local name for the bullfinch, Pyrrhula vulgaris.
  2. n. A high mountain; specifically, any one of the higher Swiss mountains, and, as a proper name in the plural, the great mountain-ranges in Switzerland and neighboring countries, comprising the loftiest mountains in Europe.
  3. n. In Switzerland, a pasture on the side of a mountain.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
  2. n. Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
  3. n. A bullfinch.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any high mountain

Etymologies

  1. From Alps, from French Alpes, from Latin Alpes, from probably non-PIE root *alb- (Wiktionary)
  2. Back-formation from the Alps . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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