Definitions for Tibet

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Tibet Ti·bet

Spelling: [ti-bet]

IPA: /tɪˈbɛt/

Tibet is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in Tibet (beitt).

Definitions for Tibet

noun

1. Also, Thibet. Also called Sitsang, Xizang. Official name Tibet Autonomous Region. an administrative division of China, N of the Himalayas: prior to 1950 a theocracy under the Dalai Lama; the highest country in the world, average elevation about 16,000 feet (4877 meters). 471,660 sq. mi. (1,221,599 sq. km). Capital: Lhasa.
2. Plateau of. Also called Tibetan Highlands, Roof of the World. a vast plateau in S central Asia bounded by the Tarim and Qaidam basin deserts to the N and the Himalayan, Karakoram, and Pamir mountain ranges to the S and W: highest plateau in the world, averaging about 15,000 feet (4570 meters). 850,000 sq. mi. (2,200,000 sq. km).

Examples for Tibet

He stayed there until the 10th of May, to make arrangements for his travels in Tibet.

Today, North Korea is believed by some experts to be more accessible to journalists than Tibet.

Some officials in China do recognize that Tibet is a time bomb waiting to explode.

The mode of knowing and identifying children in Tibet is peculiar.

China claims Tibet as its own; but it cannot be moved by the deaths of Tibetans because it knows they are foreign.

In Tibet everybody is a surgeon, thus woe to the unfortunate who needs one.

China in Tibet has always been, like Britain in India and Spain in the Americas, an alien overlord.

Perhaps encouraged by such accommodative silence, China has tightened its grip over Tibet.

Divorce is difficult in Tibet and involves endless complications.

In return he gave me interesting information about the soldiers of Tibet.