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Gran Paradiso

Gran Paradiso proper noun: a mountain of the Graian Alps, located between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont regions of northwestern Italy.

Proper noun

Gran Paradiso

  1. A mountain of the Graian Alps, located between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont regions of northwestern Italy.

Origin of Gran Paradiso

Unadapted borrowing from Italian Gran Paradiso (literally “Great Paradise”), a mistranslation of the original Franco-Provençal Granta Parey (literally “Great Wall”).

Questions about Gran Paradiso

What does Gran Paradiso mean?
Gran Paradiso means a mountain of the Graian Alps, located between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont regions of northwestern Italy.
What part of speech is Gran Paradiso?
Gran Paradiso is a proper noun.

Words near Gran Paradiso in the dictionary

  1. Gran Canaria
  2. Gran Chaco
  3. Gran Colombia
  4. Gran Colombian
  5. Gran Colombians
  6. Gran Paradiso
  7. gran'ma
  8. gran'mas
  9. gran'pa
  10. gran'pas
  11. gran'pies

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