sir edmund hillary

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   New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)

   SynonymsHillaryEdmund HillarySir Edmund Percival Hillary

   Broadermountaineer

Questions about sir edmund hillary

What does sir edmund hillary mean?

sir edmund hillary means "New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)".

What is another word for sir edmund hillary?

Close synonyms include Hillary, Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sir edmund hillary a common word?

sir edmund hillary 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.