| NOUN | person | Sherpa | a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers |
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| Meaning | A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers. | |
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| Instances | Tenzing Norgay | Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986) |
| Member of | Nepal, Kingdom of Nepal | A small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China |
| Tibet, Thibet, Xizang, Sitsang | An autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China | |
| Broader | Asian, Asiatic | A native or inhabitant of Asia |
| Spanish | sherpa | |
| Catalan | sherpa, Sherpa, xerpa | |
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