mountaineer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   (obsolete)

2. 2
   noun

   A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.

   He first took me into Switzerland, and had he kept me there till now, amidst the scenery with which his pen and pencil brought me acquainted, I should have looked on myself as a very happy mountaineer, and him as a delightful guide!

3. 3
   noun

   An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.

   1786, George Culley, Observations on Live Stock, London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, p. 92, This hardy race [of sheep] differ from our other breeds, not only in their dark complection and horns, but principally in the long coarse shagged wool which grows upon these mountaineers.

4. 4
   verb

   To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer.

   […] they had returned in safety to Europe, and were now in Switzerland, where they were mountaineering with great vigour.

5. 5
   verb

   To climb as if on a mountain.

   There is a well-made path, which makes a circuit over the mass [of ruins], and is amply sufficient for all rational tourists. Those who wish to see more have to go mountaineering over gigantic columns and pilasters, and squeeze their way through passes of cut stone.

6. 6
   noun

   someone who climbs mountains

7. 7
   verb

   climb mountains for pleasure as a sport

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

From mountain + -eer.