Definitions
a high mountain or mountain peak
Word origin
Late Middle English, back-formation from alps pl, via French from Latin Alpes (“high mountains, especially those of Switzerland”). Compare Old Saxon elbon (“Alps”), Old High German Alpūn (“Alps”); Old High German alba (“alp, mountain”)).
Used in a sentence
“Nor breath of Vernal Air from ſnowy Alp.”
“Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps ariſe!”
“There is a great alp of sand, one hundred metres high, between the pines and the ocean, […]”
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01“High peak”3 letters
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