MOUNTAINEER

Pronunciation (US):

• MOUNTAINEER (noun)
  The noun MOUNTAINEER has 1 sense:

1. someone who climbs mountains

  Familiarity information: MOUNTAINEER used as a noun is very rare.

• MOUNTAINEER (verb)
  The verb MOUNTAINEER has 1 sense:

1. climb mountains for pleasure as a sport

  Familiarity information: MOUNTAINEER used as a verb is very rare.

• MOUNTAINEER (noun)

Meaning:

Someone who climbs mountains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

mountain climber; mountaineer

Hypernyms ("mountaineer" is a kind of...):

adventurer; venturer (a person who enjoys taking risks)

climber (someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mountaineer"):

alpinist (a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs)

Instance hyponyms:

Edmund Hillary; Hillary; Sir Edmund Hillary; Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (New Zealand mountaineer who first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919))

Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986))

• MOUNTAINEER (verb)

Meaning:

Climb mountains for pleasure as a sport

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "mountaineer" is one way to...):

climb; climb up; go up; mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s