Ararat

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Ararat
       n : the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of
           the great flood receded [syn: {Mount Ararat}, {Mt. Ararat}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Ararat
     sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the
     mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided (Gen.
     8:4). The "mountains" mentioned were probably the Kurdish range
     of South Armenia. In 2 Kings 19:37, Isa. 37:38, the word is
     rendered "Armenia" in the Authorized Version, but in the Revised
     Version, "Land of Ararat." In Jer. 51:27, the name denotes the
     central or southern portion of Armenia. It is, however,
     generally applied to a high and almost inaccessible mountain
     which rises majestically from the plain of the Araxes. It has
     two conical peaks, about 7 miles apart, the one 14,300 feet and
     the other 10,300 feet above the level of the plain. Three
     thousand feet of the summit of the higher of these peaks is
     covered with perpetual snow. It is called Kuh-i-nuh, i.e.,
     "Noah's mountain", by the Persians. This part of Armenia was
     inhabited by a people who spoke a language unlike any other now
     known, though it may have been related to the modern Georgian.
     About B.C. 900 they borrowed the cuneiform characters of
     Nineveh, and from this time we have inscriptions of a line of
     kings who at times contended with Assyria. At the close of the
     seventh century B.C. the kingdom of Ararat came to an end, and
     the country was occupied by a people who are ancestors of the
     Armenians of the present day.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Ararat, the curse of trembling
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Ararat, NC
    Zip code(s): 27007
  Ararat, VA
    Zip code(s): 24053