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a·re·te    Audio Help   [ahr-i-tey] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
[Origin: < Gk aret]
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a·rête    Audio Help   [uh-reyt] Pronunciation Key
–noun Physical Geography, Geology.
a sharp rugged mountain ridge, produced by glaciation.
[Origin: 1860–65; < F; OF areste sharp ridge < L arista awn, ear of wheat]
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a·rête    Audio Help   (ə-rāt')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A sharp, narrow mountain ridge or spur.


[French, from Old French areste, fishbone, spine, from Late Latin arista, awn, fishbone, from Latin, awn.]

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arete 
important concept in Gk. philosophy, "virtue, excellence," lit. "that which is good." The comp. form is areion, the superl. is aristos (cf. aristocracy).

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arete

noun
a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains 

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arête    Audio Help   (ə-rāt')  Pronunciation Key 
A sharp, narrow ridge or spur commonly found above the snow line in mountainous areas that have been sculpted by glaciers. Arêtes form as the result of the continued backward erosion of adjoining cirques.

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Arete

A`r[^e]te"\, n. [F., lit., a sharp fish bone, ridge, sharp edge, fr. L. arista beard of grain.] (Geog.) An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

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