Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sharp, narrow mountain ridge or spur.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sharp ridge or rocky spur of a mountain.
Wiktionary
- n. geology A very thin ridge of rock.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Geog.) An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French arête, from Latin arista. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French areste, fishbone, spine, from Late Latin arista, awn, fishbone, from Latin, awn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 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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looked up
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deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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over hill
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hill, mesa, mountain, hummock, tussock, ridge, butte, knoll, escarpment, tor, bank, bump and 23 more...
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Glacial Effects
albedo, ablation, crevasse, firn, glacial flour, glacial polish, icefall, jokulhlaup, ice sheet, ice shelf, ice cap, ice stream and 82 more...
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
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