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Roof of the World

Roof of the World proper noun: the various high mountainous regions in Asia, consisting of Pamir, the Himalayas, Tibet and Mount Everest.

Proper noun

the Roof of the World

  1. The various high mountainous regions in Asia, consisting of Pamir, the Himalayas, Tibet and Mount Everest.
    • In between, we travel on a luxurious houseboat in “Happy Valley,” the famed Vale of Kashmir, as well as visit the “Chang Thang,” the desolate plains of Tibet, sometimes called “the roof of the world.”1964, Lora Bryning Redford, Nathan Goldstein, “About the book”, in Getting to know the northern Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, Assam, New York: Coward-McCann

Synonyms of Roof of the World

Questions about Roof of the World

What does Roof of the World mean?
Roof of the World means the various high mountainous regions in Asia, consisting of Pamir, the Himalayas, Tibet and Mount Everest.
What part of speech is Roof of the World?
Roof of the World is a proper noun.

Words near Roof of the World in the dictionary

  1. roof gardens
  2. roof knocking
  3. roof light
  4. roof lights
  5. roof of the mouth
  6. Roof of the World
  7. roof over
  8. roof over one's head
  9. roof over the head
  10. roof prism
  11. roof prisms

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