sherpa (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Sherpa*:
NOUN	person	Sherpa	a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers

English > *Sherpa*: 1 sense > noun 1, person
Meaning	A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
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
Member of	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

HyperDic: sherpa