Mount Everest
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2.3
- proper noun
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Monte Everest
- Many climbers attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest each year, drawn by its record height.
- climb Mount Everest
The dude climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, man.
- The dude climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, man.
- You know, you've heard of Douglas Hochstetter, I think he said people trained to go to Mount Everest.
- Sir Edmund Hillary is a Kiwi and he is was the first man in the world to summit Mount Everest.
- As you go up to high mountains, for example top of Mount Everest, you can read books about what they call thin air.
- Like Mount Olympus, Mount Everest, I guess.
- I don't need to play with the Mount Everest no more to see what I'm capable of.
- So you all sorts of people have remembered the exact height of Mount Everest without ever knowing what it's a height from.
- If Obama was at the top of Mount Everest, he would be wearing shades and and smoking a cigarette.
Examples
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Climbing teams began exploring Mount Everest in the 1920s.
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Why do people climb Mount Everest?
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And this feels like standing at the bottom of Mount Everest.
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Dad, you said standing on the top of Mount Everest was the best day of your life.
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How high is Mount Everest?
Fiction book (1998) -
Here I am, 100 yards from the top of Mount Everest.
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You get a guided trek to the Mount Everest base camp.
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Jordan had become the youngest person ever to summit Mount Everest.
Academic text (2011) -
Thirteen-year-old Jordan Romero wanted to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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Mount Everest, on the border between Tibet and Nepal in Asia, dwarfed all the others.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.8
The highest mountain in the world, in the Himalayas on the border of Nepal and China
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2.0
The highest mountain in the world in the Himalayas on the border of Nepal and Tibet reaching 8,848 meters
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Mount' denotes a mountain and 'Everest' is a proper name, so together they unambiguously refer to the mountain called Everest. This naming pattern (Mount + proper name) is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand the meaning.
Etymology
Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, a British map maker who helped measure the mountain in the 1800s. The word Mount means mountain and Everest is his name, so the name helps you remember that Mount Everest is 'the highest mountain' in the world.