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Definition of Kanchanjanga
1. Noun. A mountain the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Tibet (28,208 feet high).
Group relationships: Kingdom Of Nepal, Nepal, Sitsang, Thibet, Tibet, Xizang, Himalaya, Himalaya Mountains, Himalayas
Generic synonyms: Mountain Peak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kanchanjanga
Literary usage of Kanchanjanga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Letters, Diary and Note Books of Amasa Stone Mather: June by Amasa Stone Mather (1910)
"I got up in time for the sunrise on the everlasting hills, saw kanchanjanga in
all the majesty of twenty-eight thousand feet and spent the greater part of ..."
2. India, Past and Present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay (1903)
"... kanchanjanga, SENCHAL. THE railroad has brought the "hills," as the Anglo-
Indian styles the Himalayas, within twenty-four hours of ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"kanchanjanga is one of the principal of a group of mountains upwards of 28000 feet
... But the celebrated view of kanchanjanga is not the only claim which ..."
4. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter, Herbert Hope Risley, Hermann Michael Kisch (1876)
"Between these two latter rivers is a second spur from kanchanjanga, terminating
in Tendang. ' The eastern boundary of Sikkim, separating it from ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"Therefore, according to General Walker's argument, the kanchanjanga of the panorama
is not that mountain. But this is absurd, for it obviously is. ..."
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