Mount Everest
noun
something regarded as the most difficult or challenging of its kind: the Mount Everest of international sailing.
Definition for mount everest (2 of 2)
Everest
[ ev-er-ist, ev-rist ]
/ ˈɛv ər ɪst, ˈɛv rɪst /
noun
Mount,
a mountain in S Asia, on the boundary between Nepal and Tibet, in the Himalayas: the highest mountain in the world. 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
high point; summit: The book is an Everest in the field of historical scholarship.
a male given name.
British Dictionary definitions for mount everest
Everest
/ (ˈɛvərɪst) /
noun
Mount Everest
a mountain in S Asia on the border between Nepal and Tibet, in the Himalayas: the highest mountain in the world; first climbed by members of a British-led expedition (1953). Height: established as 8848 m (29 028 ft) for many years, but the latest of a series of more recent reassessments (in 1999), not currently accepted by all authorities or by either of the controlling governments, puts it at 8850 m (29 035 ft)
Nepalese name: Sagarmatha Chinese names: Qomolangma, Chomolungma
any high point of ambition or achievement
Word Origin for Everest
C19: named after Sir G.
Everest (1790–1866), Surveyor-General of India
Cultural definitions for mount everest
notes for Mount Everest
At over 29,000 feet, it is the highest peak in the world.
notes for Mount Everest
It was first scaled in 1953 by Edmund Hillary of
New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of
Nepal.