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mountain
[ moun-tn ]
noun
- a natural elevation of the earth's surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit, and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2,000 feet (610 meters).
- a large mass of something resembling this, as in shape or size.
- a huge amount:
a mountain of incoming mail.
- (initial capital letter) a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, eight driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.
- Also called mountain wine. British Archaic. a sweet Malaga wine.
adjective
- of or relating to mountains:
mountain air.
- living, growing, or located in the mountains:
mountain people.
- resembling or suggesting a mountain, as in size.
Mountain
1/ ˈʊԳɪ /
noun
- the Mountainan extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
mountain
2/ ˈʊԳɪ /
noun
- a natural upward projection of the earth's surface, higher and steeper than a hill and often having a rocky summit
- ( as modifier )
mountain people
mountain scenery
- ( in combination )
a mountaintop
- a huge heap or mass
a mountain of papers
- anything of great quantity or size
- a surplus of a commodity, esp in the European Union
the butter mountain
- a mountain to climb informal.a serious or considerable difficulty or obstruction to overcome
- make a mountain out of a molehillSee molehill
mountain
/ moun′ə /
- A generally massive and usually steep-sided, raised portion of the Earth's surface. Mountains can occur as single peaks or as part of a long chain. They can form through volcanic activity, by erosion, or by uplift of the continental crust when two tectonic plates collide. The Himalayas, which are the highest mountains in the world, were formed when the plate carrying the landmass of India collided with the plate carrying the landmass of China.
Other yvlog Forms
- dzܲt· adjective
- ܲ·dzܲt adjective
- ܲd·dzܲt noun
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of mountain1
Origin of mountain2
Idioms and Phrases
- make a mountain out of a molehill. molehill ( def 2 ).
More idioms and phrases containing mountain
see if the mountain won't come to Muhammad ; make a mountain out of a molehill .Example Sentences
The state is expected to record a third straight year of ample water supplies in the mountains, which hasn’t happened in a quarter of a century.
It has also occupied a demilitarised buffer zone, set up after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, and has sent forces onto the Syrian side of a nearby mountain, setting up nine bases across the area.
This was, of course, all in the administration of William McKinley, whom Trump refers to and admires; he wants the mountain in Alaska to be renamed “Mount McKinley.”
The near-average snowpack means the state is expected to record a third straight year of ample water supplies in the mountains — something that hasn’t happened in a quarter of a century.
Bears are common across the Carpathian mountain range, which stretches in an arc from Romania through western Ukraine and on to Slovakia and Poland.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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