MOUNTAINEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mountaineer mean? 

• MOUNTAINEER (noun)
  The noun MOUNTAINEER has 1 sense:

1. someone who climbs mountains

  Familiarity information: MOUNTAINEER used as a noun is very rare.

• MOUNTAINEER (verb)
  The verb MOUNTAINEER has 1 sense:

1. climb mountains for pleasure as a sport

  Familiarity information: MOUNTAINEER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNTAINEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who climbs mountains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

mountain climber; mountaineer

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)

• MOUNTAINEER (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)

 Context examples 

The short step of the house-reared woman she exchanged for the long stride of the mountaineer.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of stately deer were all novelties to us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Lord John was an experienced mountaineer, and Summerlee had done some rough climbing at various times, so that I was really the novice at rock-work of the party; but my strength and activity may have made up for my want of experience.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now arose a struggle so fell, so long, so evenly sustained, that even now the memory of it is handed down amongst the Cantabrian mountaineers and the ill-omened knoll is still pointed out by fathers to their children as the Altura de los Inglesos, where the men from across the sea fought the great fight with the knights of the south. The last arrow was quickly shot, nor could the slingers hurl their stones, so close were friend and foe.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am inclined to think that a good mountaineer like myself could ascend the rock to the top, though he would, of course, be no nearer to the plateau when he had done so.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I need not say, said our leader, that on the occasion of my last visit I exhausted every means of climbing the cliff, and where I failed I do not think that anyone else is likely to succeed, for I am something of a mountaineer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)