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alphonsine |
alphorn |
alpia |
alpigene |
alpine
| alpine anemone
| alpine ash
| alpine azalea
| alpine bearberry
| alpine besseya
alpine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective alpine has 3 senses
- alpine(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or characteristic of alps; "alpine sports"
- alpine(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to the Alps and their inhabitants; "Alpine countries, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany"
- alpine(s = adj.all) Array - living or growing above the timber line; "alpine flowers"
CIDE DICTIONARY
alpine, a. [L. Alpinus, fr. Alpes the Alps: cf. F. Alpin.].
- Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants. [1913 Webster]
- Like the Alps; lofty. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
alpine, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a of or relating to high mountains. b growing or found on high mountains.
2 (Alpine) of or relating to the Alps.
--n. a plant native or suited to mountain districts.
--adj.
1 a of or relating to high mountains. b growing or found on high mountains.
2 (Alpine) of or relating to the Alps.
--n. a plant native or suited to mountain districts.
Etymology
L Alpinus: see ALP
ROGET THESAURUS
alpine
Height
N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.
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