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Webster 1913 Edition

mountaineer

mounˊtain-eer′

,

Verb.

I.

To live or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.

You can’t go

mountaineering

in a flat country.

H. James.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mountaineer

MOUNTAINE'ER

Definition 2024

mountaineer

mountaineer

English

Noun

mountaineer ‎(plural mountaineers)

Someone who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
(rare) Someone who lives in a mountainous area.
- Milton
  No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer.

Related terms

mountaineering

Synonyms

alpinist (European Alps)
mountain climber

Translations

one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure

Armenian: ալպինիստ (hy) ‎(alpinist), լեռնագնաց (hy) ‎(leṙnagnacʿ)
Catalan: alpinista m, f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 登山家 (zh) ‎(dēngshānjiā)
Czech: horolezec (cs) m
Finnish: vuorikiipeilijä
French: alpiniste (fr) m, f
German: Bergsteiger (de) m, Bergsteigerin (de) f
Greek: ορειβάτης (el) ‎(oreivátis)
Italian: alpinista (it) m, f
Japanese: 登山家 (ja) ‎(とざんか, tozanka)
Latin: oribata m

Norwegian:

Bokmål: fjellklatrer m

Nynorsk: fjellklatrar m
Polish: alpinista (pl)
Portuguese: alpinista (pt) m, f, montanhista (pt) m, f
Russian: альпини́ст (ru) m ‎(alʹpiníst), альпини́стка (ru) f ‎(alʹpinístka), скалола́з (ru) m ‎(skaloláz), скалола́зка (ru) f ‎(skalolázka)
Serbo-Croatian: alpinist m
Slovene: alpinist m, alpinistka f
Spanish: alpinista m, f, montañista m, f
Swedish: bergsbestigare c, bergsklättrare c
Tagalog: mamumundok
Turkish: dağcı (tr), alpinist (tr)

someone who lives in a mountainous area

Chinese:
Mandarin: 山地人 ‎(shāndìrén)
Finnish: vuoristolainen (fi)
French: montagnard (fr) m, montagnarde (fr) f

German: Bergbewohner m, Bergbewohnerin f
Kazakh: таулық ‎(tawlıq)
Polish: góral (pl) m
Portuguese: monteiro m
Russian: го́рец (ru) m ‎(górec)

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