Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mountaineer
Participle: mountaineered
Gerund: mountaineering
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | mountaineer |
| you | mountaineer |
| he;she;it | mountaineers |
| we | mountaineer |
| you | mountaineer |
| they | mountaineer |
Perfect
| I | have mountaineered |
| you | have mountaineered |
| he;she;it | has mountaineered |
| we | have mountaineered |
| you | have mountaineered |
| they | have mountaineered |
Past
| I | mountaineered |
| you | mountaineered |
| he;she;it | mountaineered |
| we | mountaineered |
| you | mountaineered |
| they | mountaineered |
Pluperfect
| I | had mountaineered |
| you | had mountaineered |
| he;she;it | had mountaineered |
| we | had mountaineered |
| you | had mountaineered |
| they | had mountaineered |
Future
| I | will mountaineer |
| you | will mountaineer |
| he;she;it | will mountaineer |
| we | will mountaineer |
| you | will mountaineer |
| they | will mountaineer |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mountaineered |
| you | will have mountaineered |
| he;she;it | will have mountaineered |
| we | will have mountaineered |
| you | will have mountaineered |
| they | will have mountaineered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mountaineer |
| you | mountaineer |
| he;she;it | mountaineer |
| we | mountaineer |
| you | mountaineer |
| they | mountaineer |
Perfect
| I | have mountaineered |
| you | have mountaineered |
| he;she;it | have mountaineered |
| we | have mountaineered |
| you | have mountaineered |
| they | have mountaineered |
Imperfect
| I | mountaineered |
| you | mountaineered |
| he;she;it | mountaineered |
| we | mountaineered |
| you | mountaineered |
| they | mountaineered |
Pluperfect
| I | had mountaineered |
| you | had mountaineered |
| he;she;it | had mountaineered |
| we | had mountaineered |
| you | had mountaineered |
| they | had mountaineered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mountaineer |
| you | would mountaineer |
| he;she;it | would mountaineer |
| we | would mountaineer |
| you | would mountaineer |
| they | would mountaineer |
Perfect
| I | would have mountaineered |
| you | would have mountaineered |
| he;she;it | would have mountaineered |
| we | would have mountaineered |
| you | would have mountaineered |
| they | would have mountaineered |
Imperative
| you | mountaineer |
| we | Let's mountaineer |
| you | mountaineer |
Verbs conjugated like 'mountaineer'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mountaineer'
mutineer,
fountain,
mountainboard,
outwinter,
auctioneer,
buccaneer,
contain,
continue,
counter,
counterfeed,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English mountain
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
4. Proto-Italic *-āzios
5. Latin -āriusnom.
6. Latin -ārius
7. Old French -ier
8. Middle French -ierder.
9. English -eer
10. English mountaineer
11. From mountain + -eer.
Sample Sentences
-
[…] they had returned in safety to Europe, and were now in Switzerland, where they were mountaineering with great vigour. [1872, James Payn, chapter 23, in Cecil’s Tryst, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 245:]
-
[…] no one who has mountaineered or travelled much in uncharted ground with men of very divergent or very similar powers of sight or experience will be found to discredit [the] positive but entirely accidental possession [of a sense of direction]. [1920, Geoffrey Winthrop Young, editor, Mountain Craft, New York: Scribner, page 345:]
-
At the open water we bore to the westerly shore and started to mountaineer over the hummocks piled on the land. [1951, Lord Tweedsmuir, chapter 12, in Hudson’s Bay Trader,, New York: Norton, page 170:]
-
There is a well-made path, which makes a circuit over the mass [of ruins], and is amply sufficient for all rational tourists. Those who wish to see more have to go mountaineering over gigantic columns and pilasters, and squeeze their way through passes of cut stone. [1903, E. M. Forster, “Alberto Empedocle”, in The Life to Come, and Other Stories, Penguin, published 1975, page 47:]
-
[…] he sat up and shook his ears once or twice, and then sprang lightly off the window-sill and began to mountaineer about the contents of the garret. [1940, Sylvia Townsend Warner, “The Castle of Carabas”, in Barbara Silverberg, editor, Kitten Caboodle: A Collection of Feline Fiction, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1969, page 124:]
-
Petro’s approach to fatherhood was pretty calm; he carried on with whatever he wanted to do while his rumbustious tots mountaineered all over him. [1990, Lindsey Davis, chapter 12, in Shadows in Bronze, New York: Crown, page 90:]
-
[…] when I got there it had started and there were no seats left. Secretly relieved, I walked or rather mountaineered back to the flat […] [1996, Helen Fielding, “August”, in Bridget Jones’s Diary, Penguin, page 173:]