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Everest

name
/ˈɛvəɹɪst/UK/ˈɛvəɹəst/US/ˈiːvɹɪst/

Etymology

Mountain named after Sir George Everest. The surname may be from Norman French Devereux, meaning from Évreux.

  1. derived from Devereux

Definitions

  1. Ellipsis of Mount Everest.

  2. A surname.

  3. To repeatedly cycle up steep roads with a total distance equal to the height of Mount…

    To repeatedly cycle up steep roads with a total distance equal to the height of Mount Everest.

    • Training for an Everest expedition in 1994, Mallory wrote, he had Everested by cycling eight times up Mount Donna Buang, outside Melbourne.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA