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mountaineer

noun
/ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪə̯(ɹ)/UK/ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪɹ/US

Etymology

From mountain + -eer.

  1. derived from *monti✻
  2. derived from mōns — “mountain”
  3. derived from montānia
  4. derived from montaigne
  5. inherited from mountayne
  6. suffixed as mountaineer — “mountain + eer”

Definitions

  1. A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are…

    A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).

    • (obsolete)
    • This was my master, A very valiant Briton and a good, That here by mountaineers lies slain.
    • No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaneer Will dare to soyle her virgin puritie

  2. 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!
    • These green and sweetly smelling crops They led in waggons home; And they piled them here in mountain tops For mountaineers to roam.
    • […] zigzagging precipices with mountaineers ascending roped together […]

  3. An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.

    • […] the Gibbons are true mountaineers, loving the slopes and edges of the hills, though they rarely ascend beyond the limit of the fig-trees.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A bird of the genus Oreonympha

      A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer

    2. To climb mountains

      To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer.

      • […] they had returned in safety to Europe, and were now in Switzerland, where they were mountaineering with great vigour.
      • At the open water we bore to the westerly shore and started to mountaineer over the hummocks piled on the land.

    3. To climb as if on a mountain.

      • […] he sat up and shook his ears once or twice, and then sprang lightly off the window-sill and began to mountaineer about the contents of the garret.
      • Petro’s approach to fatherhood was pretty calm; he carried on with whatever he wanted to do while his rumbustious tots mountaineered all over him.

    4. A person from or resident of West Virginia.

The neighborhood

Derived

molehill mountaineer, nonmountaineer

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA