donner pass

1. 1.

   a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died

   Broaderpass

   Part ofCaliforniaSierra Nevada

Questions about donner pass

What does donner pass mean?

donner pass means "a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died".

Is donner pass a common word?

donner pass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.