Mountaineer

Quick meaning: Mountaineer is a noun meaning (now rare) A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
2. A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer
3. (intransitive) To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer.
4. (intransitive, figurative) To climb as if on a mountain.
5. (obsolete) An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.

Example Sentences

No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaneer Will dare to soyle her virgin puritie

This was my master, A very valiant Briton and a good, That here by mountaineers lies slain.

These green and sweetly smelling crops They led in waggons home; And they piled them here in mountain tops For mountaineers to roam.

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.

Word Forms

• mountaineers
• mountaineering
• mountaineered

Synonyms for mountaineer

Depending on context, synonyms include highlander, mountainer, alpinist, cragsman, clamber, hike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include climber, climb, plaided, backwoodsman, mounter, flatlander.

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