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Mountaineer vs Alpinist - What's the difference?

mountaineer | alpinist |

As nouns the difference between mountaineer and alpinist

is that mountaineer is someone who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure while alpinist is a mountain climber, especially in the European Alps or in ranges of similar ruggedness and elevation.

As an adjective alpinist is

of or pertaining to alpinism.

mountaineer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
  • (rare) Someone who lives in a mountainous area.
  • * Milton
    • No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer .

    Related terms

    * mountaineering

    See also

    * alpinist

    Synonyms

    * mountain climber

    Anagrams

    * enumeration

    alpinist

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to alpinism.
  • * 1997 , " From the editors," Jaskinie - The Caves (Bulletin of the Caving Commission of Polish Mountaineering Association), no. 7:
    • The group of Warsaw cavers climbed out of several caves in Poland and of Sistema Cheve using alpinist techniques.
  • * 2001 , F. J. Sterck and F. Bongers, "Crown development in tropic rain forest trees," Journal of Ecology , vol. 89, no. 1, page 3:
    • The crowns of taller individuals could only be studied from neighbouring trees (climbed using spikes or alpinist ropes).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sometimes, capitalized) A mountain climber, especially in the European Alps or in ranges of similar ruggedness and elevation.
  • * 1885 , "Notes and News," Science , vol. 5, no. 124, page 512:
    • The Swiss geologist and alpinist , Horace Bénédict de Saussure, the first to make the ascent of Mont Blanc (Aug. 3, 1787), is to have erected in his honor a statue in the village of Chamounix.
  • * 2000 , Oliver Nicholson, "Constantine's Vision of the Cross," Vigiliae Christianae , vol. 54, no. 3, page 311:
    • A cross in the sky could have appeared. . . . The famous Alpinist Edward Whymper saw a similar effect on the Matterhorn.
  • (sometimes, capitalized) A downhill skier who practises the sport on high mountains.

    • References

    * * * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • Declension

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