Meaning

4 senses
  1. A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.

    Bergsteiger, Bergsteigerin

    альпини́стalʹpiníst, альпини́сткаalʹpinístka, скалола́зskaloláz

    someone who climbs mountains

  2. A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer

  3. (archaic)A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).

    (obsolete)

    Bergbewohner, Bergbewohnerin

    го́рецgórec

  4. (obsolete)An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.

Examples

12 sentences
  1. The mountaineer set out for the summit.

    deDer Bergsteiger brach zum Gipfel auf. — Dani6187

  2. The mountaineer was hungry as a wolf.

    ruАльпинист был голодный как волк. — marafon

  3. The mountaineer was as hungry as a wolf.

    ruАльпинист был голодный как волк. — marafon

  4. The insecurely anchored rope cost the mountaineer his life.

    deDas nicht sicher verankerte Seil kostete dem Bergsteiger das Leben. — al_ex_an_der

  5. The mountaineers set off, paying no heed to the severe blizzard.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
someone who lives in a mountainous area:
one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
someone who lives in a mountainous area:
one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure:

Forms

plural: mountaineers
Singularmountaineer
Pluralmountaineers

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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