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/ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪə̯(ɹ)/ · noun
(now rare) 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
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.
Use mountaineer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mountaineer means (now rare) A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized)..
Common synonyms include highlander, mountainer, alpinist, cragsman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
(obsolete)
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