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MOUNTAIN PASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks

Example:

we got through the pass before it started to snow

Synonyms:

mountain pass; notch; pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("mountain pass" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mountain pass"):

col; gap (a pass between mountain peaks)

defile; gorge (a narrow pass (especially one between mountains))

saddle; saddleback (a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle))

Instance hyponyms:

Brenner Pass (an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions)

Cumberland Gap (a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west)

Donner Pass (a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died)

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)

Holonyms ("mountain pass" is a part of...):

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

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