Synonyms for the Alps
the alps

Princeton's WordNet

1. Alps, the Alpsnoun

   a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction

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1. • Switzerland
   • Range

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1. Steve Matteson:

   When I think of Swiss type, I think of the Alps, and since I'm based in Boulder, my Alps are the Rockies.

2. James Thurber:

   If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

3. Rainer Deutschmann:

   With an electric battery, instead of carrying merchandise around you are carrying around the battery. You have a 200 km range, which you can use for a city, but you cannot use it for the Alps.

4. Carl Benedikt Frey:

   Someone standing on a bus with a microphone and someone riding on a horse with you across the Alps are very different, the first is quite automatable, the second is not.

5. Heribert Eisl:

   The avalanche happened on the northern side of the Dachstein, just under the entry point Rankluft, we mobilized all our staff, but unfortunately there was no happy ending. An avalanche in the Dachstein region of the Austrian Alps killed at least five hikers, authorities said. A separate avalanche hit the southern Carinthia region around noon, killing a 33-year-old police officer when a large piece of frozen snow struck him during an Alpine training exercise. The officer suffered such serious injuries that he died at the scene of the accident, Austrias Interior Ministry said in a statement.