Synonyms:
Alps, the_Alps
Meaning: a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction
Usage examples
Hannibal, whose business it is to get into Italy from Gaul, sets about blasting the Alps.
Reverberates there above San Benedetto From Alps, by falling at a single leap, Where for a thousand there were room enough;
A French army sent to them by land would have to force its way through the passes of the Alps, through Piedmont, through Tuscany, and through the Pontifical States, in opposition probably to great German armies.
When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps.