HINDU KUSH

Pronunciation (US):

• HINDU KUSH (noun)
  The noun HINDU KUSH has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range extending west of the Himalayas

  Familiarity information: HINDU KUSH used as a noun is very rare.

• HINDU KUSH (noun)

Meaning:

A mountain range extending west of the Himalayas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Hindu Kush; Hindu Kush Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Meronyms (parts of "Hindu Kush"):

Khyber Pass (a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India)

Tirich Mir (a mountain in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan (25,230 feet high))

Holonyms ("Hindu Kush" is a part of...):

Afghanistan; Islamic State of Afghanistan (a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south)

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)