mountainer
mountainer noun: a person who lives in a mountainous area.
Noun
mountainer (plural mountainers)
- A person who lives in a mountainous area.
- […] in the Countrey of Attica there were as many factions as there were diuerse sorts of the territorie: for the Mountainers were Democraticall; those of the champion countrey, Oligarchical; and they that dwelt neer the sea, desired a middle kind of gouernement […]1598, John Dee, transl., Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Book 5, Chapter 3, p. 267
- He also sent Embassadors to the Mountainers of the Pyrenes, & to the Gaules, to obtaine a quiet passage:1614, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Book 5, Chapter 3, p. 427
- Synonyms:
- highlander, mountaineer
Synonyms of mountainer
Forms of mountainer
| plural | mountainers |
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Origin of mountainer
From mountain + -er.
Questions about mountainer
- What does mountainer mean?
- Mountainer means a person who lives in a mountainous area.
- What part of speech is mountainer?
- Mountainer is a noun.
- What is the plural of mountainer?
- The plural of mountainer is mountainers.
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