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# mountaineer

«mountaineer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who climbs mountains as a sport or hobby** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a mountaineer, mountaineers); verb (mountaineer, mountaineering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mountaineer is a person who climbs mountains as a sport or hobby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#m1)

2) Mountaineering is the sport of climbing mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in geography and history lessons about Everest (Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay) and in adventure stories. Safety: mountaineers use ropes, helmets and maps.

### examples

- The mountaineer reached the top of Everest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#x1)
- Tenzing Norgay was a famous mountaineer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#x2)
- Mountaineers carry ropes and ice axes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#x3)
- My uncle is a keen mountaineer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#x4)
- The mountaineers set up camp below the summit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#x5)
- Mountaineering can be dangerous in bad weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#x6)
- Of course not a creature in Vadso believed that, and declared that if it made the mountaineers happier to talk such nonsense, why, let them! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/#x7)

### note

Plural: mountaineers. The verb «to mountaineer» is rare; people say «go mountaineering» or «climb».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mountaineer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mountaineer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.