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Definition of Khyber pass
1. Noun. A mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India.
Generic synonyms: Mountain Pass, Notch, Pass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Khyber Pass
Literary usage of Khyber pass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year (1843)
"orce the khyber pass—Description of the Defile — The Fort Ali Musjid taken by
the British Troops—March of the Army through the ..."
2. The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the by Andrew Wilson (1876)
"HOTI MARDAN AND THE khyber pass. CAPTAIN HUTCHINSON—ADVANTAGES OF RESIDING AT
HOTI MAR- DAN— TEMPERATURE — HAWKING — ASSASSINATIONS—THE PAN- jAB GUIDES AND ..."
3. Life of Sir Henry Lawrence by Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale (1873)
"... and the keeping open of Pollock's communications with Peshawur through the
khyber pass. Failure in either of these points would have been fatal. ..."
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