MOUNTAINEERING

Etymology

Noun

mountaineering (usually uncountable, plural mountaineerings)

The sport of climbing mountains.

Synonyms: alpinism, mountain climbing

Source: Wiktionary


MOUNTAINEER

Moun`tain*eer", n. Etym: [OF. montanier, LL. montanarius. See Mountain.]

1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.

2. A rude, fierce person. [Obs.] No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

Moun`tain*eer", v. i.

Definition: To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains. You can't go mountaineering in a flat country. H. James.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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