单词 | carpathian |
释义 | Carpathianadj.1 Of or relating to Carpathos or Karpathos, an island in the Ægean Sea. ΘΚΠ 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. A. adj.2 Designating (the region of) a range of mountains extending from the northern Czech Republic to Romania. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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