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单词 carpathian
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Carpathianadj.1

Brit. /kɑːˈpeɪθɪən/, U.S. /kɑrˈpeɪθiən/
Etymology: < Carpathos: see -ian suffix.
Of or relating to Carpathos or Karpathos, an island in the Ægean Sea.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands
Ionic1483
Rhodiana1533
Candian1559
lesbian1559
Cretan1579
Ionian1579
Ortygian1582
Parianc1602
Lemnian1611
Carpathian1637
lesbic1659
Eubœan1660
Melian1684
Sciote1718
Minoan1830
Naxiote1859
Corfiote1877
Knossian1894
Siphnian1895
Cycladic1915
Leucadian1952
1637 J. Milton Comus 30 By hoarie Nereus wrincled looke, And the Carpathian wisards hooke.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 179/1 The sea which, from this island, is called the Carpathian Sea.
1925 Glasgow Herald 30 July 6 In a spell of Carpathian silence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Carpathianadj.2n.

Brit. /kɑːˈpeɪθɪən/, U.S. /kɑrˈpeɪθiən/
Etymology: Probably immediately < German Karpathen (Karpatisch adjective) Carpathian mountains < Latin Carpatus , Greek Καρπάτης ὄρος (Ptolemy), of uncertain ulterior etymology: see -ian suffix.
A. adj.2
Designating (the region of) a range of mountains extending from the northern Czech Republic to Romania.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > countries of Eastern Europe > [adjective] > regions of Romania > Carpathian Mountains
Carpathian1673
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > spec
Alpine?a1475
Pyrene?a1475
Riphaean1555
Pyrenean?1556
Pyrenee1590
hercynian1598
Alpic1611
Appalachian1672
Carpathian1673
Rhipaean1703
Alleghenian1740
Altaic1762
Altaian1780
Balkan1785
Uralian1801
Lepontine1802
Altai1824
Dinaric1833
Andean1845
Alpigene1847
Lepontian1857
Uralic1861
Himalayan1866
Cordilleran1891
Andine1900
Armorican1906
Variscan1906
1673 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Hvngaria 3 The Carpathian Mountains which divide Poland and Hungary.
1691 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 470 Next, Let us suppose this Ocean interspersed with wide and spacious Tracts of Land; with high ridges of Mountains such as the Pyrenean, the Alps, the Apennine, the Carpathian in Europe.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ix. 218 A ridge of hills, rising from the Danube, and called the Carpathian mountains, covered Germany on the side of Dacia or Hungary.
1835 J. B. Robertson tr. F. von Schlegel Philos. of Hist. I. ii. 84 The great Danubian countries, extending from the South of the Carpathian mountains, down to the other mountainous chain northward of Greece.
1862 Mackenzie & Irby Across Carpathians i. 1 The Carpathian or Krapack chain of mountains incloses the kingdom of Hungary on three sides, in the form of a bow... In the north..it fully merits the epithet from which etymologists have derived its name—Chrib, Chrebet, the high mountain, or still more literally, the high back.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vii. 206 The Red Deer is by nature a forest species; driven from the lowlands,..it grows stunted. This, however, takes no account of the difference in relative size of antlers between Scotch and e.g. Carpathian strains.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 947/1 Today, each of the Carpathian countries has its own general geological maps.
B. n. plural.
The Carpathian mountains.
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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
a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XX. 390/1 The Carpathians, extending from West to East in a semicircular line of 200 leagues, are, according to Beudant, not so much a chain as a high terrace..terminated at both extremities by high mountain masses.
1919 G. B. Shaw Inca of Perusalem 215 Before ten years have elapsed every civilized country from the Carpathians to the Rocky Mountains will be a Republic.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 131/2 The territory of the Carpathians is shared by Czechoslovakia, the U.S.S.R., Poland, Hungary and Rumania.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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