Meaning

3 senses
  1. (capitalized, sometimes)A mountain climber, especially in the European Alps or in ranges of similar ruggedness and elevation.

    a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs

  2. (capitalized, sometimes)A downhill skier who practises the sport on high mountains.

  3. Synonym of alpine skier.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. She is a doctor and also an alpinist.

    deSie ist sowohl Ärztin als auch Bergsteigerin.

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  2. The Alpinists carried out the ascent, but they did not return safely.

    deDen Alpinisten gelang die Besteigung, aber sie kehrten nicht heil zurück.

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  3. As a child, I had a terror of height. Now, I am an industrial alpinist.

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  4. The search for a Japanese alpinist who went missing on Mont Blanc was called off on Sunday.

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  5. News of the missing climbers came the same day a Bulgarian alpinist, Atanas Skatov, was confirmed to have died on K2.

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Forms

plural: alpinists
Singularalpinist
Pluralalpinists

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedalpinistic

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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