mountaineer

English

Etymology

mountain +‎ -eer

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪə̯(ɹ)/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪɹ/, [ˌmãʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩ˈiəɹ], [ˌmæ̃ʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩ˈiəɹ]
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

mountaineer (plural mountaineers)

Someone who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
(rare) Someone who lives in a mountainous area.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
  No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer.

Synonyms

alpinist (European Alps)
mountain climber

Related terms

mountaineering

Translations

one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure

Armenian: ալպինիստ (hy) (alpinist), լեռնագնաց (hy) (leṙnagnacʿ)
Catalan: alpinista m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 登山家 (zh) (dēngshānjiā)
Czech: horolezec (cs) m
Esperanto: alpisto
Finnish: vuorikiipeilijä (fi)
French: alpiniste (fr) m or f
Galician: alpinista m or f
German: Bergsteiger (de) m, Bergsteigerin (de) f
Greek: ορειβάτης (el) (oreivátis)
Hungarian: hegymászó (hu)
Italian: alpinista (it) m or f, escursionista (it) m
Japanese: 登山家 (ja) (とざんか, tozanka)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شاخەوان‎ (şaxewan)

Latin: oribata m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjellklatrer m

Nynorsk: fjellklatrar m
Polish: alpinista (pl)
Portuguese: alpinista (pt) m or f, montanhista (pt) m or 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 or f, montañista m or f, montañero
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
Italian: montanaro (it) m

Kazakh: таулық (tawlıq)
Polish: góral (pl) m
Portuguese: monteiro m
Russian: го́рец (ru) m (górec)
Vilamovian: giörol m

Verb

mountaineer (third-person singular simple present mountaineers, present participle mountaineering, simple past and past participle mountaineered)

(intransitive) To climb mountains.

Anagrams

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