mountaineer en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- [ˌmæ̃ʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩ˈĩɚ] (US)
- [ˌmãʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩ˈiəɹ] (US)
- [ˌmæ̃ʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩ˈiəɹ] (US)
- /ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪɹ/ (US)
- /ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪə̯(ɹ)/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree English mountain Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Middle French -ierder. English -eer English mountaineer From mountain + -eer.
Meanings
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(archaic) A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).
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 […]
1786, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, volume 1, number 20, London: C. Dilly, page 184: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.
1822, William Hazlitt, “On the Fear of Death”, in Table-Talk, volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 388:(obsolete)
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.
1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 30, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, published 2002, page 228:This was my master, A very valiant Briton and a good, That here by mountaineers lies slain.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaneer Will dare to soyle her virgin puritie
1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 15:
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A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
These green and sweetly smelling crops They led in waggons home; And they piled them here in mountain tops For mountaineers to roam.
1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Hayloft”, in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green, page 48: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!
1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, edited by T. N. Longman and L. B. Seeley, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, volume 1, London, Supplementary Letters, Letter 3, page 408:[…] zigzagging precipices with mountaineers ascending roped together […]
1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, New York: Modern Library, page 223:
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(obsolete) An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.
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.
[…] the Gibbons are true mountaineers, loving the slopes and edges of the hills, though they rarely ascend beyond the limit of the fig-trees.
1863, Thomas Henry Huxley, chapter 1, in Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature, London: Williams and Norgate, pages 26–27:1786, 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.
- A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mountaineers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
molehill mountaineer · nonmountaineer
Synonyms
mountain climber · alpinist · cragsman · highlander · mountainer
Translations (84)
hu hegymászó (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · cmn 登山運動員 /登山运动员 (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · fr montagnard (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · eu mendizale (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · fi vuorikiipeilijä (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · pt montanhista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sq bjeshkatar (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · ru альпини́стка (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · kk таулық (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · nl bergbeklimmer (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · mk плани́нарка (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ru скалола́зка (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · es montañero (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · wym giörol (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · es montañista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ja 山人 (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · cs horolezkyně (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · it scalatore (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sq lekë (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · fr alpiniste (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ja 登山家 (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · mr गिर्यारोहक (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · hy ալպինիստ (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · la oribata (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · es alpinista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · hy լեռնագնաց (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · mk го́рјанка (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · de Bergsteiger (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · kk таушы (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · it escursionista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ru альпини́ст (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · hi पर्वतारोही (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sw mpandaji mlima (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · ru го́рец (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · sq malësor (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · nn fjellklatrar (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · pl alpinistka (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sl alpinistka (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sl alpinist (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · it scalatrice (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sh alpinist (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · cs horolezec (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · pl góral (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · el ορειβάτης (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · de Bergbewohner (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · mn уулчин (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ru скалола́з (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · hi पहाड़ी (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · bg алпини́ст (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · eo alpisto (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · mk алпини́стка (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · bg плани́нец (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · pl alpinista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · it montanaro (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · fi vuoristolainen (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · tl mamumundok (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · mk го́рјанин (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · bg планина́р (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · cmn 登山家 (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sv bergsbestigare (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ko 등산가 (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · fr montagnarde (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · de Bergbewohnerin (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · gl alpinista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ro alpinistă (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ca alpinista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · ckb شاخەوان (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · nb fjellklatrer (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · tr alpinist (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · pt monteiro (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · it alpinista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · mk пла́нинар (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · bg плани́нка (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · ro alpinist (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · mn ᠠᠭᠤᠯᠠᠴᠢᠨ (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · tr dağcı (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sv bergsklättrare (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · sq malësore (someone who lives in a mountainous area) · et mägironija (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · pt alpinista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · hu alpinista (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · mk алпини́ст (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · de Bergsteigerin (one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure) · cmn 山民 (someone who lives in a mountainous area)