HyperDic: donner_pass

English > 1 sense of the expression Donner Pass:
NOUNobjectDonner Passa mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe
English > Donner Pass: 1 sense > noun 1, object
MeaningA mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died.
Instance ofpass, mountain pass, notchThe location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
Part ofCalifornia, Golden State, CA, Calif.A state in the western United States on the Pacific
Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains, High SierraA mountain range in eastern California

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