"mountaintop" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: mountain + top Etymology templates: {{compound|en|mountain|top}} mountain + top Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} mountaintop (not comparable)
  1. Situated or occurring on the summit of a mountain. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-mountaintop-en-adj-b5-YQDpO

Noun

Forms: mountaintops [plural]
Etymology: mountain + top Etymology templates: {{compound|en|mountain|top}} mountain + top Head templates: {{en-noun}} mountaintop (plural mountaintops)
  1. The summit of a mountain. Derived forms: mountaintopism, mountaintop removal, snow on the mountaintop, there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley Translations (the summit of a mountain): سەرچیا (serçya) (Central Kurdish), bergtop (Dutch), fjallatindur [masculine] (Faroese), vuorenhuippu (Finnish), cume [masculine] (Galician), cima [feminine] (Galician), cimbro [masculine] (Galician), Berggipfel [masculine] (German), Bergspitze [feminine] (German), καταράχι (kataráchi) [neuter] (Greek), βουνοκορφή (vounokorfí) [feminine] (Greek), hegytető (Hungarian), hegycsúcs (Hungarian), wjerch [masculine] (Lower Sorbian), gáisá (Northern Sami), fjelltopp [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fjelltopp [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), горная верши́на (gornaja veršína) (Russian), bergstopp [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-mountaintop-en-noun-CWITNq7~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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