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shān

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English meaning

  • blizzard noun A severe snowstorm with strong winds and very poor visibility.
  • buttress noun A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  • fell verb To cut something down, especially a tree, or to knock someone or something to the ground.
  • heap noun A pile of things gathered or thrown together.
  • lining noun A layer of material covering or added to the inside of something.
  • Mons name The capital city of Hainaut province, Belgium; also a diminutive of the given names Monica and Montgomery.
  • mountain noun A very tall, steep natural landform rising well above the surrounding land.
  • tops adv At the most; as an upper limit (informal).
  • uphill adj Going up a slope; located higher on a hill.

Senses

山 is used for these senses in English:

  • big deal (idiomatic, informal) Someone very important; a VIP.
  • blizzard (figuratively) A large amount of paperwork.
  • buttress (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
  • fell (archaic, _, outside, _, Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
  • heap A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  • lining A covering for the inside surface of something.
  • mons (astronomy, geology) An extraterrestrial mountain or volcano.
  • mountain (countable) An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit. [from 12th c.]

blizzard — full definition

  1. noun A severe snowstorm with strong winds and very poor visibility.
  2. noun An overwhelming quantity of something arriving at once.

buttress — full definition

  1. noun A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  2. noun Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
  3. noun A buttress root.
  4. noun A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.

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