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Mountaineer
Definitions
- 1 A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized). archaic
"(obsolete)"
- 2 someone who climbs mountains wordnet
- 3 A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
"He first took me into Switzerland, and had he kept me there till now, amidst the scenery with which his pen and pencil brought me acquainted, I should have looked on myself as a very happy mountaineer, and him as a delightful guide!"
- 4 An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area. obsolete
"1786, George Culley, Observations on Live Stock, London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, p. 92, This hardy race [of sheep] differ from our other breeds, not only in their dark complection and horns, but principally in the long coarse shagged wool which grows upon these mountaineers."
- 5 A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer
- 1 To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer. intransitive
"[…] they had returned in safety to Europe, and were now in Switzerland, where they were mountaineering with great vigour."
- 2 climb mountains for pleasure as a sport wordnet
- 3 To climb as if on a mountain. figuratively, intransitive
"There is a well-made path, which makes a circuit over the mass [of ruins], and is amply sufficient for all rational tourists. Those who wish to see more have to go mountaineering over gigantic columns and pilasters, and squeeze their way through passes of cut stone."
Etymology
From mountain + -eer.
From mountain + -eer.
See also for "mountaineer"
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