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# alp

«alp» in Mova's school dictionary: **The great range of high mountains in Europe, across…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an alp, alps; the Alps — a name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (the Alps, a name) The great range of high mountains in Europe, across France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#m1)

2) A high mountain, especially a snowy one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#m2)

3) In Switzerland, a high mountain meadow where cows graze in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Geography: the Alps include Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn; skiing, glaciers and mountain farming. History: Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants. In stories it adds a sense of great height.

### examples

- We went skiing in the Alps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#x1)
- Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#x2)
- Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#x3)
- Cows graze on the alp in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#x4)
- Snow lay on the alps all year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#x5)
- Heidi lived with her grandfather in the Alps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/#x6)

### note

Capital A for the mountain range: the Alps. Adjective: Alpine (alpine flowers). The Southern Alps are in New Zealand; the Australian Alps in Australia.

### In the corpora

- [Rome fought Hannibal of Carthage, who crossed the Alps with elephants, and won.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «alp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.