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MOUNTAIN CLIMBER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Someone who climbs mountains

Synonyms:

mountain climber; mountaineer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mountain climber" 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 "mountain climber"):

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))

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