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 →

2) Mountaineering is the sport of climbing mountains. tree →

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 →
• Tenzing Norgay was a famous mountaineer. tree →
• Mountaineers carry ropes and ice axes. tree →
• My uncle is a keen mountaineer. tree →
• The mountaineers set up camp below the summit. tree →
• Mountaineering can be dangerous in bad weather. tree →
• 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 →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.