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    HINDU KUSH

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayasplay

    Synonyms:

    Hindu Kush; Hindu Kush Mountains

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

    Instance hypernyms:

    chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

    Meronyms (parts of "Hindu Kush"):

    Khyber Pass (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)

    Tirich Mir (a mountain in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan (25,230 feet high))

    Holonyms ("Hindu Kush" is a part of...):

    Afghanistan; Islamic State of Afghanistan (a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south)

    Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

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