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mountaineer

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Noun, Verb (intransitive)
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moun=tain=eer

CIDE DICTIONARY

mountaineern. [OF. montanier, LL. montanarius. See Mountain.].
  •  An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A rude, fierce person.  [1913 Webster]
    "No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A person who climbs mountains for sport.  [PJC]
mountaineerv. i. 
     To live or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.  [1913 Webster]
    "You can't go mountaineering in a flat country."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mountaineer, n. & v.
--n.
1 a person skilled in mountain-climbing.
2 a person living in an area of high mountains.
--v.intr. climb mountains as a sport.

Derivative
mountaineering n.

THESAURUS

mountaineer

adventurer, alpinist, ascender, astronaut, backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, bumpkin, bushman, camper, clam digger, climber, clodhopper, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cracker, cragsman, cruiser, desert rat, excursionist, explorer, fare, forester, frontiersman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hinterlander, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mountain man, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, piny, pioneer, provincial, redneck, ridge runner, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, upclimber, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, woodlander, woodman, woodsman, world-traveler, yokel

ROGET THESAURUS

mountaineer

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.


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