Definition of Gosainthan

1. Noun. A mountain in the Himalayas in Tibet (26,290 feet high).

Group relationships: Sitsang, Thibet, Tibet, Xizang, Himalaya, Himalaya Mountains, Himalayas
Generic synonyms: Mountain Peak

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gosainthan

Gorizia
Gorki
Gorkiy
Gorky
Gorlin's sign
Gorlin's syndrome
Gorlin's syndromes
Gorlin cyst
Gorlin formula
Gorman's syndrome
Gormenghastian
Gorno-Altaysk
Gorontalo
Gorsuch
Gosainthan (current term)
Gospel
Gospel According to John
Gospel According to Luke
Gospel According to Mark
Gospel According to Matthew
Gospel of Luke
Gospel shop
Gospel shops
Gospels
Gosport
Gossage
Gosselin's fracture
Gossypium arboreum
Gossypium barbadense

Literary usage of Gosainthan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1857)
"... a vast Himalayan peak situated 60 to 70 miles east of Gosainthan, fine) which Colonel ... answers precisely to cast longitude 87°, Gosainthan being in ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1858)
"The position of Mount Everest is connected with that of Gosainthan as a known ... Further, the position of Gosainthan given in the Physical Geography of the ..."

3. A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet by Sidney Gerald Burrard, Henry Hubert Hayden (1908)
"They drain the whole hills between Dhaulagiri and Gosainthan, ... Nor does a single streamlet of the Trisul arise east of the peak of Gosainthan, ..."

4. An Elementary Geography of India, Burma, and Ceylon by Henry Francis Blanford (1904)
"Gosainthan is the highest peak of that which separates the basins of the Gandak and the Kosi, and Mount Everest rises between the ..."

5. The Geography of British India, Political & Physical by George Smith (1882)
"E. of Dhawalagiri; (3) Kerang, W. of Gosainthan Mountains; (4) Kuti E.,—the two last are the most frequented; the roads join at Tingri, where the Chinese ..."

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