单词 | the ghats |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Ghats 1. the Ghats: the name applied by Europeans to two chains of mountains along the eastern and western sides of southern Hindustan, known as the Eastern and Western Ghats. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > other spec. Mountains of the Moon1597 Carnic Alps1601 the Ghats1603 Pyreneans1768 Rocky Mountains1798 Balkans1802 Carnian Alps1802 Rockies1827 Carpathiana1832 Appalachians1834 Adirondack1838 keel1857 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 200 Narsinga..lieth Between the mountain Gate and the gulfe of Bengala. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 49 All along here the Top of Gates is seen above the Clouds. 1762 J. Rennell Let. 21 Mar. in H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) 282/2 The Mountains of Gate (a string of Hills in ye country). 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. vii. 342 Thickets which clothe the skirts of the eastern ghats where they approach the sea. 1879 R. H. Elliot Written on their Foreheads II. 5 The ravines..which run down into the forest at the foot of the ghauts. < as lemmas |
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