mountaineering

[moun-tn-eer-ing]

moun·tain·eer·ing

[moun-tn-eer-ing]
noun
the sport of climbing mountains.

Origin:
1795–1805; mountaineer + -ing1

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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moun·tain·eer

[moun-tn-eer]
noun
1.
an inhabitant of a mountainous district.
2.
a climber of mountains, especially for sport.
verb (used without object)
3.
to climb mountains, especially for sport.

Origin:
1600–10; mountain + -eer
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mountaineer (ˌmaʊntɪˈnɪə)
 
n
1.  a person who climbs mountains
2.  a person living in a mountainous area
 
vb
3.  (intr) to climb mountains
 
mountain'eering
 
n

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