Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A high mountain.
- n. A very large mound or mass.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An old local name for the bullfinch, Pyrrhula vulgaris.
- 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.
- n. In Switzerland, a pasture on the side of a mountain.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
- n. Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
- n. A bullfinch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any high mountain
Etymologies
- From Alps, from French Alpes, from Latin Alpes, from probably non-PIE root *alb- (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from the Alps . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Alpion; because the word alp, in some of the original western languages, generally signifies very high lands, or hills; as this isle appears to those who approach it from the Continent.”
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
“Angling upward to a point, like a child's drawing of an alp, it is not quite a high-rise.”
“Congrats Chris. ahmet alp balkan said at 1am on Jan 8th # |”
“Sitting on a shelf, Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" stares down as coldly and harshly as an alp in winter.”
The Washington Post: As electronic readers gain popularity, what happens to the personal library?
“Those seven summers worth of tedious work sit "wie ein alp" as a certain philosopher once said on my memory.”
“March 25th, 2010 at 2:40 pm i wish i could ask alp questions..”
“Just as the funders for alp includes unions supporting hillary.”
New Pro-Hillary Group's Ad: Obama Has No Specifics On The Economy
“I'm fairly certain snob was referencing the idiocy of "alp duez" by comparing him to an Egyptian president.”
“It's not like I'd be giving reports about this or that alp, or playing domestique on some tour de coolness.”
“You know you see those pictures of Lance Armstrong or Alberto Contador finishing an 80 mile stage straight up an alp and they look cool and collected?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alp’.
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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the name of the rose
pleasing words I encounter whilst reading umberto eco's novel of the same name.
matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers, compline, usurper, simoniac, heresiarch, malefactor and 230 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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Really Cool Three-Letter Words
None of your "the" and "get" here. No, no. This is the place for auk and sty, and words of that ilk.
One might think that being limited to only three letters would prevent many words fro...auk, sty, ilk, ani, owl, zit, ink, eau, rum, pus, pwe, pyx and 105 more...
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Demongering
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diablerie, grimoire, ouija, dybbuk, sciomancy, necromancy, cacodemon, fallen angel, choronzon, kokomo, demonology, lilith and 650 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Western European mythical creatures a...
barbegazi, xorguinae, wichtlein, poltergeist, ondine, undine, sylph, salamander, reaper, imp, guivre, gargoyle and 24 more...
Tweets
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yarb Also, a bullfinch. May 12, 2008