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Definition of Kinchinjunga
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 Kinchinjunga
Literary usage of Kinchinjunga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Pictures: Drawn with Pen and Pencil by William Urwick (1891)
"... where kinchinjunga and its neighbour peaks burst on our view, kindled with
the rays of the rising sun. The air was perfectly clear, ..."
2. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
"kinchinjunga NEXT TO EVEREST HIGHEST OF MOUNTAINS O WHITE priest of Eternity,
around Whose lofty summit veiling clouds arise Of the earth's immemorial ..."
3. A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet by Sidney Gerald Burrard, Henry Hubert Hayden (1908)
"K2 has always been supposed to be the second highest mountain on the earth,, but
its height does not differ much from that of kinchinjunga, and we cannot ..."
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