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Mount Ararat

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Noun1.Mount AraratMount Ararat - the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded
Ararat, Mt. Ararat
Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923


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It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
"Here, then, is a puzzle for the learned," observed D'Artagnan, "until now they have never been able to agree as to the situation of Paradise; some place it on Mount Ararat, others between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates; it seems that they have been looking very far away for it, while it was actually very near.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
"The Apple Orchard, Mount Ararat Road, Highgate," Mary said, speaking slowly and rather strangely.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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