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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An autonomous region of western China between the Himalaya and Kunlun Mountains. A center of Lamaist Buddhism, Tibet flourished as a kingdom in the 7th century. Following periods of Han, Mongol, and Manchu rule, it proclaimed independence in 1913 from the Qing Dynasty and fell under Chinese control in the 1950s. Lhasa is the capital.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Tibet cloth . - noun A woolen stuff usually printed in colors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The
Tibetan Plateau , a plateau region inCentral Asia , where the Tibetan people traditionally live, encompassing what is nowTibet Autonomous Region (also calledXizang ), most ofQinghai , the western half ofSichuan , a small part ofYunnan and a small part ofGansu in thePeoples Republic of China , and also the country ofBhutan , and theIndian regions ofSikkim andLadakh . - proper noun An independent
kingdom that formerly existed inCentral Asia where theTibet Autonomous Region now is. - proper noun A common shorthand name for Tibet Autonomous Region, previously mostly coterminous with the independent portion of Tibet until 1950.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas
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