The mountain range in south-central Asia which extends about 2,414 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam; it contains nine of the world’s ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest/Qomolongma.

Alternative form of Himalayas.

(geography) The highest mountain range of the Himalayas

Synonym of Great Himalayas

Of or relating to the Himalayas. / (figuratively) huge, gigantic, enormously large

An inhabitant of the Himalayas. / A domestic cat breed similar to (and, in some places, considered a variety of) the Persian breed.

An Old World vulture, Gyps himalayensis.

An Asiatic striped squirrel, Tamiops mcclellandii.

A marmot living on the Himalayan mountains, Marmota himalayana, closely related to the groundhog.

An Asian species of shrew, Soriculus nigrescens.