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"ref": "1822, William Hazlitt, “On the Fear of Death”, in Table-Talk, volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 388",
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"ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 30, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, published 2002, page 228",
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"text": "He first took me into Switzerland, and had he kept me there till now, amidst the scenery with which his pen and pencil brought me acquainted, I should have looked on myself as a very happy mountaineer, and him as a delightful guide!",
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"ref": "1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Hayloft”, in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green, page 48",
"text": "These green and sweetly smelling crops\nThey led in waggons home;\nAnd they piled them here in mountain tops\nFor mountaineers to roam.",
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"ref": "1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, New York: Modern Library, page 223",
"text": "[…] zigzagging precipices with mountaineers ascending roped together […]",
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"text": "1786, George Culley, Observations on Live Stock, London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, p. 92,\nThis hardy race [of sheep] differ from our other breeds, not only in their dark complection and horns, but principally in the long coarse shagged wool which grows upon these mountaineers."
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"ref": "1863, Thomas Henry Huxley, chapter 1, in Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature, London: Williams and Norgate, pages 26–27",
"text": "[…] the Gibbons are true mountaineers, loving the slopes and edges of the hills, though they rarely ascend beyond the limit of the fig-trees.",
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"text": "1892, Sutton and Sons, Reading, The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 5th edition, p. 217,\nThere really is no need of artificial heat, for the Auricula is a mountaineer, and can endure both frost and snow."
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"feminine"
],
"word": "плани́нарка"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "alpiníst",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "алпини́ст"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "alpinístka",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "алпини́стка"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fjellklatrer"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fjellklatrar"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"word": "alpinista"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alpinistka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "alpinista"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "montanhista"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alpinist"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alpinistă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alʹpiníst",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "альпини́ст"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alʹpinístka",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "альпини́стка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skaloláz",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скалола́з"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skalolázka",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "скалола́зка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alpinist"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alpinist"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "alpinistka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"word": "alpinista"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"word": "montañista"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"word": "montañero"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
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"word": "bergsbestigare"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
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"word": "bergsklättrare"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"word": "mamumundok"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"word": "alpinist"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure",
"word": "dağcı"
}
],
"word": "mountaineer"
}
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"ref": "1872, James Payn, chapter 23, in Cecil’s Tryst, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 245",
"text": "[…] they had returned in safety to Europe, and were now in Switzerland, where they were mountaineering with great vigour.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1920, Geoffrey Winthrop Young, editor, Mountain Craft, New York: Scribner, page 345",
"text": "[…] no one who has mountaineered or travelled much in uncharted ground with men of very divergent or very similar powers of sight or experience will be found to discredit [the] positive but entirely accidental possession [of a sense of direction].",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1951, Lord Tweedsmuir, chapter 12, in Hudson’s Bay Trader,, New York: Norton, page 170",
"text": "At the open water we bore to the westerly shore and started to mountaineer over the hummocks piled on the land.",
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"ref": "1903, E. M. Forster, “Alberto Empedocle”, in The Life to Come, and Other Stories, Penguin, published 1975, page 47",
"text": "There is a well-made path, which makes a circuit over the mass [of ruins], and is amply sufficient for all rational tourists. Those who wish to see more have to go mountaineering over gigantic columns and pilasters, and squeeze their way through passes of cut stone.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1940, Sylvia Townsend Warner, “The Castle of Carabas”, in Barbara Silverberg, editor, Kitten Caboodle: A Collection of Feline Fiction, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1969, page 124",
"text": "[…] he sat up and shook his ears once or twice, and then sprang lightly off the window-sill and began to mountaineer about the contents of the garret.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1990, Lindsey Davis, chapter 12, in Shadows in Bronze, New York: Crown, page 90",
"text": "Petro’s approach to fatherhood was pretty calm; he carried on with whatever he wanted to do while his rumbustious tots mountaineered all over him.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Helen Fielding, “August”, in Bridget Jones’s Diary, Penguin, page 173",
"text": "[…] when I got there it had started and there were no seats left. Secretly relieved, I walked or rather mountaineered back to the flat […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To climb as if on a mountain."
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{
"word": "hike"
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