"mountain pass" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mountain passes [plural]
Etymology: mountain + pass Etymology templates: {{com|en|mountain|pass}} mountain + pass Head templates: {{en-noun}} mountain pass (plural mountain passes)
  1. A low point in a mountain range that allows travelers to cross the range. Categories (place): Landforms Translations (low point): լեռնանցք (leṙnancʿkʿ) (Armenian), կապան (kapan) (Armenian), aşırım (Azerbaijani), mendate (Basque), пролóм (prolóm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), port de muntanya (Catalan), 山口 (shānkǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), průsmyk (Czech), passet [definite, neuter] (Danish), pas [indefinite, neuter] (Danish), bjergpasset [definite, neuter] (Danish), bjergpas [indefinite, neuter] (Danish), skarð [neuter] (Faroese), sola (Finnish), col [masculine] (French), portela [feminine] (Galician), უღელტეხილი (uɣelṭexili) (Georgian), Pass [masculine] (German), Gebirgspass [masculine] (German), Bergpass [masculine] (German), passo di montagna [masculine] (Italian), valico [masculine] (Italian), (Japanese), とうげ (tōge) (Japanese), асу (asu) (Kazakh), 고개 (gogae) (Korean), jëuf [masculine] (Ladin), neqeb (Northern Kurdish), gelî (Northern Kurdish), zuxir (english: narrow) (Northern Kurdish), fjellovergang [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fjellpass [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), fjellovergang [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), fjellpass [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ӕфцӕг (æfcæg) (Ossetian), كمر (kemer) (Ottoman Turkish), ارغید (arğid) (Ottoman Turkish), pas [neuter] (Romanian), trecătoare [feminine] (Romanian), перева́л (perevál) (Russian), collado [masculine] (Spanish), puerto [masculine] (Spanish), bergspass (Swedish), tizi [feminine] (Tarifit), ช่องเขา (chɔ̂ng-kǎo) (Thai), đèo (Vietnamese)

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      "sense": "low point",
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      "roman": "chɔ̂ng-kǎo",
      "sense": "low point",
      "word": "ช่องเขา"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "low point",
      "word": "đèo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mountain pass"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.