Alp
[ælp]
Definition
(n.) A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
(n.) Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
(n.) A bullfinch.
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Definition
n. a high mountain:—pl. Alps specially applied to the lofty ranges of Switzerland.—adjs. Alp′en; Alpine (alp′in or alp′īn) pertaining to the Alps or to any lofty mountains: very high.—ns. Al′pinist Alpes′trian one devoted to Alpine climbing.
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Examples
- He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Whereupon Hannibal marched straight through the south of Gaul, and crossed the Alps (218 B.C.) into Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Probably the last summer had found no human being alive, in all the track included between the shores of Calabria and the northern Alps. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Birkin wanted to leave the dead man in the Alps, near the snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This Pope, John XII, was finally degraded by the new German Emperor Otto, who came over the Alps and down into Italy to be crowned in 962. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their biggest effort, through Germany right into France, thence over the Alps and home again by North Italy, was in 938-9. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He started without delay, taking, however, only his own gunboat, the Carondelet, towed by the steamer Alps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As the cold increased upon us, we passed the Alps, and descended into Italy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Its snow-clad mountains one hears so much about are only seen occasionally, and then in the distance, the Alps. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The German sword was always clattering over the Alps into Italy, and missions and legates toiling over in the reverse direction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- While its physical strength lay north of the Alps, the centre of its idea was Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I had come out of Italy, over one of the great passes of the Alps, and had since wandered with a guide among the by-ways of the mountains. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We had descended the Alps, and left far behind their vast forests and mighty crags. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Next, I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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