"six-thousander" meaning in English

See six-thousander in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: six-thousanders [plural]
Etymology: From six thousand + -er. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|six thousand|-er|id2=measurement}} six thousand + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} six-thousander (plural six-thousanders)
  1. Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 6,000 metres (19,685 ft) but less than 7,000 metres (22,966 ft) above sea level. Categories (place): Mountains

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "six thousand",
        "3": "-er",
        "id2": "measurement"
      },
      "expansion": "six thousand + -er",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From six thousand + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "six-thousanders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "six-thousander (plural six-thousanders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (measurement)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mountains",
          "orig": "en:Mountains",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015 December 18, Adam Taylor, “The Norwegian plan to gift Finland a mountain”, in The Washington Post:",
          "text": "If you judge countries purely by their mountainous terrain, Finland is a bit of a loser. Halti, Finland's tallest, is around 1,324 meters, or about 4,340 feet, making it a \"one-thousander\" as it is over a thousand meters above sea level. That may sound impressive, but bear in mind that the tallest peak in the United States is a six-thousander and Mount Everest is a eight-thousander.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 11, Stefan Nestler, “Paul Ramsden after another first ascent of a six-thousander in Nepal: “Anything but alpine style is cheating””, in Adventure Mountain:",
          "text": "Paul Ramsden and Tim Miller have done it again: the two Brits managed another first ascent of a six-thousander in Nepal this fall – in alpine style (without bottled oxygen, without Sherpa support, without fixed ropes and without fixed high camps) and on a difficult route.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 6,000 metres (19,685 ft) but less than 7,000 metres (22,966 ft) above sea level."
      ],
      "id": "en-six-thousander-en-noun-yJEhXN3Q",
      "links": [
        [
          "mountain",
          "mountain"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ],
        [
          "metre",
          "metre"
        ],
        [
          "sea level",
          "sea level"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "six-thousander"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "six thousand",
        "3": "-er",
        "id2": "measurement"
      },
      "expansion": "six thousand + -er",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From six thousand + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "six-thousanders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "six-thousander (plural six-thousanders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er (measurement)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Mountains"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015 December 18, Adam Taylor, “The Norwegian plan to gift Finland a mountain”, in The Washington Post:",
          "text": "If you judge countries purely by their mountainous terrain, Finland is a bit of a loser. Halti, Finland's tallest, is around 1,324 meters, or about 4,340 feet, making it a \"one-thousander\" as it is over a thousand meters above sea level. That may sound impressive, but bear in mind that the tallest peak in the United States is a six-thousander and Mount Everest is a eight-thousander.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 11, Stefan Nestler, “Paul Ramsden after another first ascent of a six-thousander in Nepal: “Anything but alpine style is cheating””, in Adventure Mountain:",
          "text": "Paul Ramsden and Tim Miller have done it again: the two Brits managed another first ascent of a six-thousander in Nepal this fall – in alpine style (without bottled oxygen, without Sherpa support, without fixed ropes and without fixed high camps) and on a difficult route.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 6,000 metres (19,685 ft) but less than 7,000 metres (22,966 ft) above sea level."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mountain",
          "mountain"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ],
        [
          "metre",
          "metre"
        ],
        [
          "sea level",
          "sea level"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "six-thousander"
}

Download raw JSONL data for six-thousander meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.