Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of a mountainous area.
- noun One who climbs mountains for sport.
- intransitive verb To climb mountains for sport.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inhabitant of a mountainous district; hence, a person regarded as uncouth or barbarous.
- noun A climber of mountains: as, he has distinguished himself as a mountaineer.
- To assume or practise the habits of a mountaineer; climb mountains: seldom used except in the present participle or the participial adjective.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To live or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.
- noun An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.
- noun obsolete A rude, fierce person.
- noun A person who climbs mountains for sport.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
climbs mountains forsport orpleasure - noun rare someone who
lives in amountainous area
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who climbs mountains
- verb climb mountains for pleasure as a sport
Etymologies
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Examples
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I suppose that every mountaineer is partly an idealist, otherwise why should he get up at three o'clock in the morning and be cold and wet and tired and hungry and frightened by turns, and then come back and say he had a marvellous day.
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There are people all over the United States to whom the mere mention of the word mountaineer evokes a fantastic picture -- a whiskey-soaked ruffian with bloodshot eyes and tobacco-stained beard, wide-brimmed felt cocked over a half-cynical eye, finger on the trigger of a long-barreled squirrel rifle.
Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945
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Even when the home of the mountaineer was a one - or two-room cabin, accommodations for any stranger could be provided, and if he wished to remain, work could be found for him.
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Men clad in goat-skin coats peered down at us from time to time from crags that looked inaccessible, shouting now and then curt recognition before leaning again on a modern rifle to resume the ancient vigil of the mountaineer, which is beyond the understanding of the plains-man because it includes attention to all the falling water voices, and the whispering of heights and deeps.
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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Men clad in goat-skin coats peered down at us from time to time from crags that looked inaccessible, shouting now and then curt recognition before leaning again on a modern rifle to resume the ancient vigil of the mountaineer, which is beyond the understanding of the plains-man because it includes attention to all the falling water voices, and the whispering of heights and deeps.
The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909
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The mountaineer was a devil, the foreman said, and I had to club him with a pistol-butt before he would give in.
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The mountaineer was a devil, the foreman said, and I had to club him with a pistol-butt before he would give in.
Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories John Fox 1891
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He saw, too, that the mountaineer was a fine horseman, and as he carried a long slender-barreled rifle over his shoulder, while a double-barreled pistol was thrust in his belt, it was likely that he would prove a formidable enemy to any who sought to stop him.
The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign 1890
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But many have spoken of an exhilaration of spirits not inferior to that of the mountaineer, which is experienced, and without fatigue, in sky voyages reasonably indulged in -- of a light-heartedness, a glow of health, a sharpened appetite, and the keen enjoyment of mere existence.
The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation John Mackenzie Bacon 1875
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