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Kilimanjaro

[ kil-uh-muhn-jahr-oh ]

noun

  1. a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5,889 meters).


Kilimanjaro

/ ˌkɪlɪmənˈdʒɑːrəʊ /

noun

  1. a volcanic massif in N Tanzania: the highest peak in Africa; extends from east to west for 80 km (50 miles). Height: 5895 m (19 340 ft)


Kilimanjaro

  1. The highest mountain in Africa , located in northeastern Tanzania .


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Notes

“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway .

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Example Sentences

My relationship with food and the woods has been up and down—from Kilimanjaro to bariatric surgery.

When I hiked Kilimanjaro the first time, I was the fattest female hiker the guides and porters had ever seen.

On the other hand, the mountain’s tens of thousands of annual climbers already stress Kilimanjaro’s environment with litter and trampled vegetation, according to the IUCN.

Kilimanjaro’s five diverse vegetation zones encompass everything from forests and farmland to desert and glaciers—which have retreated 85 percent from 1912 to 2013, a fact that has made many a headline.

Kilimanjaro could soon look quite different, and not just because of its shrinking glaciers.

I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Reavis was summiting Mount Kilimanjaro with a group of young innovators, including Mooser.

In the shadow of Kilimanjaro, an Italian couple has created a luxurious and eco-friendly safari camp favored by celebrities.

It is an apt moniker, as the land between the Chyulu Hills and Mount Kilimanjaro reveals itself season after season.

It is the terrain mythologized by Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

The people of Kibonoto are the westernmost inhabitants on the slopes of Kilimanjaro.

They believe that cannon were taken up Kilimanjaro by the first Arabs who came into the country, and there they lie.

Its peaks are the highest in Africa south of Mount Kilimanjaro, for several of them reach 11,000 feet.

From here he was driven in March, 1916, and by the end of that month our forces had conquered the whole Kilimanjaro-Meru areas.

Fever-stricken wrecks are they of the men that marched so eagerly to Kilimanjaro nine weary months before.

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