Mountaineer
Definitions
- A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).
- A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
- An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.
- A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer
Equivalents
29 more languages
العربيةمتسلق الجبال
Bosanskialpinistbrđaninbrđankagoraningorštakgorštakinjaplaninarалпинистбрђанинбрђанкагоранингорштакгорштакињапланинар
Catalàalpinista
Esperantoalpisto
Hrvatskialpinistbrđaninbrđankagoraningorštakgorštakinjaplaninarалпинистбрђанинбрђанкагоранингорштакгорштакињапланинар
Magyarhegymászó
한국어등산가
Kurdîleke
Nederlandsbergbeklimmer
Српскиalpinistbrđaninbrđankagoraningorštakgorštakinjaplaninarалпинистбрђанинбрђанкагоранингорштакгорштакињапланинар
Kiswahilimpandaji mlima
Tagalogmamumundok
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⟳.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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