Meaning of Mountaineer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).
   archaic
2. A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
3. An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.
   obsolete
4. A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer

Equivalents

Examples

“(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”

Comus

“A mountaineer can tread firm upon a precipice and walk erect without tottering along the path, that winds itself about the craggy cliff, on which he has his dwelling; whilst the inhabitant of the valley travels with affright and danger over the giddy pass […]”

“The mountaineer will not leave his rock, nor the savage his hut; neither are we willing to give up our present mode of life, with all its advantages and disadvantages, for any other that could be substituted for it.”

“My formal Spanish must have sounded as pretentious to the ears of the paisano as “Whither goeth my sire?” would have sounded to a semi-literate Ozark mountaineer.”

“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 […]”

“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.”

“[…] the Gibbons are true mountaineers, loving the slopes and edges of the hills, though they rarely ascend beyond the limit of the fig-trees.”

“1892, Sutton and Sons, Reading, The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 5th edition, p. 217, There really is no need of artificial heat, for the Auricula is a mountaineer, and can endure both frost and snow.”

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