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/hˌɪməlˈaɪə/ /hˌɪməlˈeɪə/ Listen

Himalaya

noun

A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain. Synonyms: Himalaya Mountains, Himalayas.

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"Himalaya" Quotes from Famous Books

... is so bright and so large, and the trap-door is so conspicuous in the court, that no visitor, even to No 2, ever afterwards can quite divest his memory of those names, Burton and Bangles, Himalaya wines. It may therefore be acknowledged that Burton and Bangles have achieved their object in putting up the notice. The house No 2, small as it seems to be, standing in the jamb of a corner, is divided among different occupiers, ...

— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope

... breadth, in diffusion at all times, but especially in the rainy season, the Ganges is the cock of the walk in our British orient. Else, as regards the body of water discharged, the absolute payments made into the sea's exchequer, and the majesty of column riding downwards from the Himalaya, I believe that, since Sir Alexander Burnes's measurements, the Indus ranks foremost by a long chalk.], that drained some hyperbolical continent, some Quinbus Flestrin of Asiatic proportions, long since gone to the dogs. All things pass away. Generations wax ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... ago in the 'Himalaya.' We are encamped with the rest of the light division who have come up. Sir George Brown commands us, and will be here from Gallipoli in a day or two with the rest of ...

— Jack Archer • G. A. Henty

Words linked to "Himalaya" : Thibet, Tibet, range of mountains, Mount Kanchenjunga, Mount Everest, Changtzu, Gosainthan, chain, India, Nanda Devi, Makalu, Kanchenjunga, Mt. Everest, Kingdom of Nepal, Nanga Parbat, Kanchanjanga, Anapurna, Nepal, Kamet, Lhotse, chain of mountains, mountain range, Dhaulagiri, Republic of India, Sitsang, Bharat, Nuptse, Everest, Kinchinjunga, Xizang, range, Annapurna, mountain chain