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[ alp ] / ælp / SEE SYNONYMS FOR alp ON THESAURUS.COM
Origin of alpFirst recorded in 1635–1645; back formation from Alps Words nearby alpa lot, aloud, alouette, alow, Aloysius, alp, alpaca, Alpena, alpenglow, alpenhorn, alpenstock Definition for alp (2 of 2)Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for alpALP casualty rates are said to be double those of the Afghan National Army and National Police. Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias|Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST In many villages, peasants have a hard time telling the difference between the ALP and the many arbakai. Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias|Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST Over the past six months at least 180 ALP officers have been killed. Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias|Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST The official adds that young boys, too, are not immune from sexual assault by the ALP and arbakai. Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias|Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He says they were wearing the khaki-colored uniforms of the ALP. Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias|Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST From Alp to Alp he is answered by his brother herdsmen, and the deep, strong notes echo from crag to crag in solemn melody. The doctor himself was loath to go, for the Alp had become as a home to him. It would seem as though fame, like the sun, hot and luminous at a distance, is cold as the summit of an alp when you approach it. Modeste Mignon|Honore de Balzac You know those pure summer mornings, when one may truly say that the Alp smiles and that the mountain invites. The Heavenly Father|Ernest Naville It was our Alp, and we ascended and descended it with a flood of emotion not unmixed with sand. In the Footprints of the Padres|Charles Warren Stoddard
British Dictionary definitions for alp (1 of 2)
noun(in the European Alps) an area of pasture above the valley bottom but below the mountain peaks a high mountain See also Alps, Australian Alps Word Origin for alpC14: back formation from Alps, from French Alpes (pl), from Latin Alpēs, from Greek Alpeis British Dictionary definitions for alp (2 of 2)Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to alppike, mount, summit |