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Definition of Himalayan
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Himalayas. "Himalayan peaks"
Definition of Himalayan
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.
Definition of Himalayan
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Himalayas. ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively) huge, gigantic, enormously large ¹
3. Noun. An inhabitant of the Himalayas. ¹
4. Noun. A domestic cat breed similar to (and, in some places, considered a variety of) the Persian breed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Himalayan
Literary usage of Himalayan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The himalayan gneiss is usually white and grey, its felspar orthoclase and albite
... Hornblende occurs in the syenitic gneiss of the Northern himalayan (or ..."
2. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1835)
"Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the
himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere. By J. Forbes Royle, Esq., ..."
3. A Memoir on the Indian Surveys by Clements Robert Markham (1878)
"The introduction contains a geographical sketch of the himalayan system, in which
it is described as being composed of three chains, the northern range or ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"Explorations in Western Tibet, In/ the Trans-himalayan parties of the Indian
Trigonometrical Survey. THE ' Report on the Survey of India for 1877-78,' a few ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1870)
"TRANS-himalayan EXPLORATIONS, 1868. John Light ; Benjamin Moran, ... The first
paper read was— Report of the Trans-himalayan Explorations made during 1868. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Terrestrial Refraction in the Western himalayan Mountains. ... The first portion
appertains to what is called the NW himalayan Series, the second to what is ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... by Sykes many years ago,' which only contains about 150 species of Land-birds,
of which about 105 belong to genera common to the himalayan and Malayan ..."