mountain
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mountain/ˈmaʊntən/
▶noun
- 1 an elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly and to a large height from the surrounding level.
- 2 a large pile or quantity of something.
■ a large surplus stock of a commodity: a butter mountain.
– phrases
move mountains achieve spectacular and apparently impossible results.
move mountains achieve spectacular and apparently impossible results.
– derivatives
mountainy adjective.
mountainy adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. montaigne, based on L. mons, mont- ‘mountain’.
'mountain' also found in these Oxford entries:
aiguille
- alp
- arête
- argali
- ascent
- ash
- attempt
- ben
- berg
- bergschrund
- boondocks
- bothy
- Brocken spectre
- buttress
- canyoning
- catamount
- chairlift
- chine
- climb
- conquer
- cordillera
- cornice
- dittany
- dome
- dryas
- dunite
- edelweiss
- face
- foothill
- fount
- gavotte
- gendarme
- ghat
- gill
- guide
- guyot
- heli-skiing
- Hercynian
- Herdwick
- hill
- hogback
- horn
- ibex
- inselberg
- jebel
- kaolin
- kea
- knife-edge
- landslide
- lee wave
