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  • proper noun The world’s highest mountain, located in the Himalayas between Nepal and Tibet.

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  • noun a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high)

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Named by Andrew Waugh after George Everest.

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