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Arete   Listen
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Arete  n.  (Geog.) An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Arete" Quotes from Famous Books



... orology, orography, orogeny, montiform, butte, arete, spur, montanic, intermontane, oread, mountainous, ultramontane, bergstock, subalpine, alpenstock, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... heard that Dr. W. F. Tolmie, Hudson's Bay Company agent at Fort Nisqually, who made a botanizing trip to the lower slopes in 1833, attempted the peak. Lieutenant Kautz, with two companions from fort Steilacoom, climbed the arete between the glacier now named after him and the Nisqually glacier, but fearing a night on the summit, and knowing nothing of the steam caves in the crater, he turned back when probably at the crest of the south peak. Writing in the ...
— The Mountain that was 'God' • John H. Williams

... says it is not yet time to sleep ev megaro, "in the hall." Alcinous and Arete, his wife, sleep "in the recess of the lofty domos," that is, in the recess of the hall, not of "the house" (Odyssey, VII. 346). The same words are used of Helen and Menelaus (Odyssey, IV. 304). But when Menelaus goes forth next morning, he goes ek thalamoio, "out ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Arete" :   ridge, ridgeline



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