Fourteener
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fourteener is a noun meaning (US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
Meaning
(US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
More Meanings
- (poetry) A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.
Example Sentences
He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.
Word Forms
- fourteeners
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include thirteener, eight-thousander, fourteenness, fourteenth, eleven, tetradecimal.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.