khyber pass

1. 1.

   a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India

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   Part ofHindu KushAfghanistanPakistan

Questions about khyber pass

What does khyber pass mean?

khyber pass means "a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India".

Is khyber pass a common word?

khyber 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.