mountaineer
/ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).
Archaic
noun
A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer
noun
A person from or resident of West Virginia.
Example Sentences
- "(obsolete)"
- "This was my master, A very valiant Briton and a good, That here by mountaineers lies slain."
- "No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaneer Will dare to soyle her virgin puritie"
- "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 […]"
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪɹ/
- British English: /ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪə̯(ɹ)/