Meaning & use
alp
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A high mountain, especially one in a range with snow-capped peaks.
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From the train window, travelers could see a distant alp glowing pink in the sunset.
Each alp in the range seemed higher and more jagged than the last.
A note on using this word
Used generically and lowercase, 'alp' refers to any high mountain, distinct from the capitalized proper noun 'the Alps,' the mountain range in Europe from which the common noun derives.
Words with a similar meaning
peaksummit
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Words with an opposite meaning
valleylowland
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