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mountaintop en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmaʊnt(ɪ)nˌtɑp/ (Canada, General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From mountain + top.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Situated or occurring on the summit of a mountain.

Forms

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mountain top alternative lexicographic

mountaintop en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmaʊnt(ɪ)nˌtɑp/ (Canada, General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From mountain + top.

Meanings

  1. The summit of a mountain.
    • While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles. 2016, Claire Krulikowski, Moonlight on the Ganga:
    • So we follow dear Jenny along the mountaintop trail, until it descends to the forest below, where Maple and Oak, and violet Trefoil, and velvety Viburnum grow; where polynose clusters hang from Striped Maple, and Cinnamon Ferns that show. 2007, Hal Laza, The Green Embrace, page 77:

Forms

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mountain top alternative lexicographic
mountaintops Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

snow on the mountaintop · mountaintop removal · there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley · mountaintopism

Translations (29)

nb fjelltopp (the summit of a mountain) · af bergspits (the summit of a mountain) · sv bergstopp (the summit of a mountain) · fo fjallatindur (the summit of a mountain) · gl cima (the summit of a mountain) · cmn 山頂 /山顶 (the summit of a mountain) · gl cimbro (the summit of a mountain) · tr zirve (the summit of a mountain) · ckb سەرچیا (the summit of a mountain) · de Bergspitze (the summit of a mountain) · nn fjelltopp (the summit of a mountain) · tr doruk (the summit of a mountain) · ota قله (the summit of a mountain) · dsb wjerch (the summit of a mountain) · gl cume (the summit of a mountain) · se gáisá (the summit of a mountain) · hu hegycsúcs (the summit of a mountain) · hu hegytető (the summit of a mountain) · ota تپه (the summit of a mountain) · el βουνοκορφή (the summit of a mountain) · nl bergtop (the summit of a mountain) · el καταράχι (the summit of a mountain) · fi vuorenhuippu (the summit of a mountain) · tr şahika (the summit of a mountain) · de Berggipfel (the summit of a mountain) · pl wierzchołek góry (the summit of a mountain) · ru горная верши́на (the summit of a mountain) · ota طوروق (the summit of a mountain) · xnb lalangica (the summit of a mountain)