Ararat
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8.2
- proper noun
- /ˈærəˌræt/
- The modern era of ark hunting began in the nineteenth century when several religiously inspired Europeans launched a series of expeditions to Ararat.
- expeditions to Ararat
Examples
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Is that Mount Ararat where Noah landed?
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On clear days in Yerevan, snowcapped Mount Ararat would loom up on the horizon like a beautiful hologram.
Fiction book (1996) -
Their purpose, they explained, was to survey Ararat and prove that Noah's ark did not exist.
Academic text (1997) -
There are many unverified reports of a massive wooden vessel on Mount Ararat.
Blog text (3) -
A group called Noah's Ark Ministries International led a Chinese and Turkish team on an expedition to Mount Ararat in October 2009.
Blog text (24) -
In 1955, Fernand Navarra, a French industrialist, ascended Ararat.
Academic text (1997) -
Igneous rock formations have lured ark seekers to the volcanic mountain Ararat near Turkey.
Academic text (1997) -
In 1939, an American evangelical magazine, The New Eden, reported that a Russian World War I aviator named Vladimir Roskovitsky had seen a large ship resting high on Mount Ararat in 1917.
Academic text (1997) -
Perhaps the ultimate irony of the expeditions to Ararat is that while the ark seekers mean to demonstrate that the Bible is neither myth nor superstition, they associate it instead with rumor and illogic.
Academic text (1997) -
Mount Ararat is traditionally believed to be the resting place of Noah's Ark after the great flood.
Synonyms
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6.9
A mountain in eastern Turkey long thought to be where Noah's ark landed
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7.7
A high mountain in eastern Turkey said to be where Noah's Ark landed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ararat comes from an old place name, Urartu, the name of a kingdom long ago in the same area. Because the Bible calls that mountain the place where Noah's Ark landed, Ararat has become the famous 'landing place of the Ark'.