mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊn.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈmuːn.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈmaʊn.t(ə)n/
ipa: [ˈmaʊn.tn̩]
other: [ˈmãʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩]
other: [ˈmæ̃ʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩]
ipa: /ˈmaʊn.tən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmæʊn.tən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmɛʊn.tən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmawnʈɛ(j)n/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -aʊntɪn
rhymes: (General American) -aʊntən
Forms: form: mountains
Etymology: From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native Old English beorg and dūn, and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).
Senses: examples: text: Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
text: We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains.
text: We collected plant specimens from mountain meadows above 2000 meters.
text: My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 50:6:
text: Wherever a geologist directs his attention in the midst of a scene of mountains, traces of ruin and decay always meet his eye; and the lofty prominences of our globe, supposed to be the most permanent of nature's works, every where display unequivocal marks of the lapse and effects of time.
ref: 1807, Joseph Wilson, “Preliminary Observations”, in A History of Mountains, Geographical and Mineralogical, volume 1, London: Nicol, White, Faulders & Asperne, pages xlvi–xlvii:
text: We walk’d together on the crown
Of a high mountain which look’d down
Afar from its proud natural towers
Of rock and forest, on the hills— […]
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
glosses: An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.
examples: text: He was a real mountain of a man, standing seven feet tall.
text: There's still a mountain of work to do.
text: Iraq says the mountain of documentation it has provided to the United Nations shows it is innocent of harbouring weapons of mass destruction. America continues to maintain that it has evidence that this is a pack of lies.
ref: 2002 December 9, “A Mountain of Lies?”, in The Economist:
glosses: Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
examples: text: Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A difficult task or challenge.
examples: text: Called on Courtenay, with whom I walked to Hampstead Heath, and got into excellent spirits, enjoying fine fresh air; then dined with him tête-a-tête on mutton broth and mackerel and drank mountain and old port moderately.
ref: 1785-1789, James Boswell, The English Experiment (diaries):
glosses: Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
glosses: A woman's large breast.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The twenty-first Lenormand card.
Synonyms: sense: Terms derived from Germanic roots
word: barrow
raw_tags: in some senses
sense: Terms derived from Germanic roots
word: berg
sense: Terms derived from Germanic roots
word: berry
sense: Terms derived from Germanic roots
word: pike
word: alp
word: beacon
word: ben
word: crest
word: eminence
word: fell
word: height
word: highland
word: hill
word: jebel
word: mont
word: mound
word: mount
word: pinnacle
word: prominence
word: reek
word: ridge
word: rock
word: spur
word: tor
Hypernyms: word: landform
Hyponyms: sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Aspen Mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Battle Mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Big Mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Black Mountains
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Castle Mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: folded mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Iron Mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Pine Mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Rocky Mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: table mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Table Mountain
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: Table Mountains
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: volcano
word: butte
word: cinder cone
word: inselberg
word: mesa
word: monadnock
word: tepui
Meronyms: sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: mountainside
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: mountainslope
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: mountaintop
sense: Of the sense “an elevation of land”
word: peak
word: crag
word: crater
word: slope
word: summit
Derived terms: sense: Single-word terms derived from “mountain”
word: intermountain
sense: Single-word terms derived from “mountain”
word: intramountain
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word: midmountain
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word: Mountain
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word: mountainboard
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word: mountain devil
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word: mountained
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english: noun/verb
translation: noun/verb
word: mountaineer
sense: Single-word terms derived from “mountain”
word: mountaineering
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word: mountainer
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word: mountainet
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word: mountaingem
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word: mountainless
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word: mountainlike
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word: mountainness
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word: mountainscape
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word: mountainward
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word: mountainwards
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word: mountainy
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word: municycling
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word: nonmountaineer
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word: submountain
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word: transmountain
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word: undermountain
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word: upmountain
sense: Attributive uses of the noun “mountain”
word: Andean mountain cat
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word: Chinese mountain cat
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word: Mountainair
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word: mountain apple
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word: mountain ash
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word: Mountain Ash
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word: mountain bearberry
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word: mountain bike
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word: mountain bilberry
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word: mountain boarding
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word: mountain building
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word: mountain buzzard
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word: mountain cat
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word: mountain cavy
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word: Mountain City
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word: mountain climbing
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word: mountain cranberry
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word: Mountain Daylight Time
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word: mountain dew
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word: mountain dulcimer
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word: mountain-elf
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word: mountain fever
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word: mountain ghost
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word: mountain goat
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word: mountain gorilla
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word: mountain hare
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word: mountain holly
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word: Mountain Home
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word: Mountain Kingdom
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word: mountain knotgrass
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word: Mountain Lakes
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word: mountain laurel
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word: mountain lion
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word: mountain motormountain string
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word: mountain parsley
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word: mountain pine beetle
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word: mountain pride
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word: mountain reindeer
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word: mountain sheep
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word: mountain sickness
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word: Mountain Standard Time
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word: Mountain Street
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word: Mountain Time
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word: mountain top removal mining
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word: mountain unicycle
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word: mountain unicycling
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word: mountain unit
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word: Mountain View
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word: Mountain View County
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word: mountain weasel
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word: mountain zebra
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word: Riding Mountain West
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word: Steeple Mountain
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word: Stoliczka's mountain vole
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word: Welsh mountain pony
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word: White Cloud Mountain minnow
sense: Idioms with the word “mountain”
word: have a mountain to climb
sense: Idioms with the word “mountain”
word: make a mountain out of a molehill
sense: Idioms with the word “mountain”
word: snow on the mountain
sense: Proverbs with the word “mountain”
word: faith will move mountains
sense: Proverbs with the word “mountain”
word: if the mountain won't come to Muhammad
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: acute mountain sickness
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word: Bavarian mountain hound
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word: Bernese mountain dog
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word: butter mountain
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word: Canby's mountain lover
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word: Castle Mountain
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word: cat-a-mountain
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word: cat o' mountain
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word: fire mountain
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word: fire-on-the-mountain
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word: fold mountain
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word: Hartmann's mountain zebra
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word: Illawarra mountain pine
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word: Japanese mountain yam
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word: king shit of fuck mountain
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word: Larch Mountain
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word: man-mountain
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word: mountain antelope
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word: mountain avens
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word: mountain avocetbill
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word: mountain beaver
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word: mountain belt
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word: mountain bicycle
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain biker
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain biking
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain blue
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain bluebird
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain bramble
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word: mountain cabbage
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word: mountain carpet clover
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word: mountain cheese
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain chickadee
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain chicken
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word: mountain climber
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word: mountain clouded yellow
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain cork
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain crystal
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain deer
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain degu
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word: mountain fir clubmoss
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word: mountain flax
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word: mountain fold
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word: mountain grape
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain green
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain guide
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain gun
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain hemlock
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain howitzer
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain in labour
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: Mountain Jew
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain leader
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word: mountain leather
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word: mountain limestone
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain lioness
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain lover
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain mahogany
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain man
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain maple
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain marrow
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain meal
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain milk
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain mint
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word: mountain misery
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word: mountain nyala
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain oyster
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word: mountain panther
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain papaya
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word: mountain parrot
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word: mountain pass
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain pawpaw
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word: mountain pecker
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain phlox
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain pine
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain plum
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain quail
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain rat
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain rescue
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain rescuer
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word: mountain rice
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word: mountain ringlet
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word: mountain shrike
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word: mountain soap
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word: mountain soursop
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word: mountain specter
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word: mountain spectre
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word: mountain spinach
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word: mountain system
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word: mountain tallow
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word: mountain tea
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain tobacco
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain to climb
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain top
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain vole
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: mountain wagtail
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word: mountain wolf
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word: people mountain people sea
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word: Savage Mountain
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word: snow-on-the-mountain
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word: snow on the mountain top
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word: trans-mountain
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: White Mountain
sense: Other terms containing the word "mountain" (unsorted)
word: White Mountains
Related terms: sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
english: noun/verb
translation: noun/verb
word: amount
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: demount
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: dismount
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: intramountainous
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
english: adjective/noun
translation: adjective/noun
word: montane
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: montanic
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
english: noun/verb
translation: noun/verb
word: mount
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: mountainous
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: mountainously
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: mountainousness
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: nonmountainous
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: paramount
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: sermountain
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: surmount
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: unmount
sense: Terms derived from Latin “mōns”
word: unmountainous
word: mountaineer
word: cliff
word: horn
word: :Category:en:Mountains