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Mount Everests

Mount Everests is the plural of Mount Everest.

Meaning of Mount Everest

Noun

Mount Everest (plural Mount Everests)

  1. (figuratively) An endeavor that is very demanding yet rewarding; also, something which is the highest achievement, challenge, etc.; the epitome, the pinnacle, the ultimate.
    • We stand on the colossal peak of King Lear, with Othello on our right hand and Macbeth on our left, the sublime masses of Elizabethan mountain country rolling on every side of us, yet plainly dominated by the extraordinary central cluster of aiguilles on which we have planted ourselves. This triple...1907, Edmund Gosse, “The Age of Elizabeth 1560–1610”, in A Short History of Modern English Literature, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 104

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Questions about Mount Everests

What is Mount Everests the plural of?
Mount Everests is the plural of Mount Everest.

Words near Mount Everests in the dictionary

  1. Mount Erebus
  2. Mount Etna
  3. Mount Evelyn
  4. Mount Everest
  5. Mount Everest syndrome
  6. Mount Everests
  7. Mount Fairy
  8. Mount Field
  9. Mount Florida
  10. Mount Forbes
  11. Mount Foster

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