Tibet

[ ti-bet ]

/ tɪˈbɛt /

noun

Also Thibet. Also called Sitsang, Xizang. Official name Tibet Autonomous Region. an administrative division of China, N of the Himalayas: prior to 1950 a theocracy under the Dalai Lama; the highest country in the world, average elevation about 16,000 feet (4877 meters). 471,660 sq. mi. (1,221,599 sq. km). Capital: Lhasa.

Plateau of. Also called Tibetan Highlands, Roof of the World. a vast plateau in S central Asia bounded by the Tarim and Qaidam basin deserts to the N and the Himalayan, Karakoram, and Pamir mountain ranges to the S and W: highest plateau in the world, averaging about 15,000 feet (4570 meters). 850,000 sq. mi. (2,200,000 sq. km).

Example sentences from the Web for tibet

Some officials in China do recognize that Tibet is a time bomb waiting to explode.

Tibet’s Ticking Time Bomb |Kapil Komireddi |January 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
China claims Tibet as its own; but it cannot be moved by the deaths of Tibetans because it knows they are foreign.

Tibet’s Ticking Time Bomb |Kapil Komireddi |January 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
China in Tibet has always been, like Britain in India and Spain in the Americas, an alien overlord.

Tibet’s Ticking Time Bomb |Kapil Komireddi |January 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Perhaps encouraged by such accommodative silence, China has tightened its grip over Tibet.

Tibet’s Ticking Time Bomb |Kapil Komireddi |January 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Today, North Korea is believed by some experts to be more accessible to journalists than Tibet.

Tibet’s Ticking Time Bomb |Kapil Komireddi |January 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It is impossible to place the ancient town of Tibet accurately.

The Gates of India |Thomas Holdich
At Tali-fang one would have to depend upon his own resources to get a guide to take him into Tibet, he said.

Caravans By Night |Harry Hervey
And you will diligently inform yourself of the manufactures, productions, and goods which are to be procured in Tibet.

A Book of Discovery |Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge
The effect of all the coin that we took to and left in the country must have had a curious economic effect on Tibet.

To Lhassa at Last |Powell Millington
The west wind, which swept all day over Tibet, rustled pleasantly through the grass.

Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 1 (of 2) |Sven Hedin

British Dictionary definitions for tibet

Tibet

/ (tɪˈbɛt) /

noun

an autonomous region of SW China; formerly a theocracy and the centre of Lamaism: Europeans strictly excluded in the 19th century; invaded by China in 1950; rebellion (1959) against Chinese rule suppressed and the Dalai Lama fled to India; military rule imposed (1989–90) after continued demands for independence; consists largely of a vast high plateau between the Himalayas and Kunlun Mountains. Capital: Lhasa. Pop: 2 700 000 (2003 est). Area: 1 221 601 sq km (471 660 sq miles) Chinese names: Xizang Autonomous Region, Sitsang

Cultural definitions for tibet

Tibet

Region in southwestern China, bordered by Burma to the southeast; India, Bhutan, and Nepal to the south; India to the west; and Chinese provinces to the north and east. Located in the Himalayas.

notes for Tibet

The Dalai Lama, religious and civil leader of Tibet, was forced into exile in 1959, when the Chinese annexed the country.

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