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MOUNTAINEER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who climbs mountains

Synonyms:

mountain climber; mountaineer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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 in 1953 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))

Derivation:

mountain (a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill)

mountaineer (climb mountains for pleasure as a sport)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

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

Derivation:

mountaineer (someone who climbs mountains)

mountaineering (the activity of climbing a mountain)

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