"Alpine" is a word in ENGLISH
Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as,
Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
Like the Alps; lofty.
One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.
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Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
Read the complete definitionA very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of …
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