Meaning of MOUNTAINEER
| Pronunciation: | | `maûnti'neeur
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- [n] someone who climbs mountains
- [v] climb mountains for pleasure, as a sport
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| | Synonyms: | | mountain climber |
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| | See Also: | | adventurer, alpinist, climb, climb up, climber, Edmund Hillary, go up, Hillary, mount, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, venturer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Moun`tain*eer"\, n. [OF. montanier, LL.
montanarius. See {Mountain}.]
1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among
mountains.
2. A rude, fierce person. [Obs.]
No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. --Milton.
\Moun`tain*eer"\, v. i.
To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.
You can't go mountaineering in a flat country. --H.
James.
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| | Related Terms: | | adventurer, alpinist, ascender, astronaut, backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, bumpkin, bushman, camper, clam digger, climber, clodhopper, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cracker, cragsman, cruiser, desert rat, excursionist, explorer, fare, forester, frontiersman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hinterlander, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mountain man, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, piny, pioneer, provincial, redneck, ridge runner, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, upclimber, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, woodlander, woodman, woodsman, world-traveler, yokel |
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