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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan. The Himalayas include nine of the world's ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest.
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- noun a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain
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Examples
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It also happened that he had played a major role in the planning of the only successful airlift in history: the flying of supplies to Nationalist Chinese troops fighting the Japanese over “The Hump,” the 16,000-foot-high Himalaya Mountains between India and China.
Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010
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To counteract the now-probable fall of Rangoon and subsequent isolation of Chungking, T.V. had recommended to President Roosevelt an air route between northeast India and Kunming in Yunnan the province of China bordering Burma, neglecting to mention that between these two points lay the Himalaya Mountains, “probably the most hazardous flight route in the world.”
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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The "Mani Rimdu Festival in Nepal" package (Oct. 10 to 31) sends visitors up the Himalaya Mountains to enjoy meditation, yoga and walking the mountain trails.
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SAYAH (voice-over): The Himalaya Mountains of Pakistan now the focus of the probe in Mumbai.
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“By my soul, Jarndyce,” returned his guest, who seemed to refer to his watch, “if you had been married, I would have turned back at the garden – gate and gone away to the remotest summits of the Himalaya Mountains sooner than I would have presented myself at this unseasonable hour.”
Bleak House 2007
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In other words, the two plates ramming together that created the Himalaya Mountains continue to ram together.
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ROBERTS: The quake devastated towns in the shadows of the Himalaya Mountains.
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Three million people spread over the Himalaya Mountains need assistance immediately.
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People search for wisdom everywhere: in distant caves and deserts; high in the Himalaya Mountains; or through drugs or magic crystals or, someday, by traveling through space to other worlds.
Dare 2B Wise Joe White 2004
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People search for wisdom everywhere: in distant caves and deserts; high in the Himalaya Mountains; or through drugs or magic crystals or, someday, by traveling through space to other worlds.
Dare 2B Wise Joe White 2004
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