Mountain

Noun

 * 1) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 304.8 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains.
 * 2) A large amount.

Adjectives for Mountain
volcanic; vast; everlasting; verdant; fabled; naked; sentinel; scarped; unscaled; windless; towering; colorless; ancient; timbered; gloomy; ponderous; prodigious; unique; weltering; shimmering; bare; cold; eroded; rugged; dizzy; faraway; wintry; forested; beacon-lighted; multitudinous; glacier-laden; pine-encircled; adamantine; dominating; spirit-haunted; cultivated; plain; melancholy; moonlit; steep; uncouthly-cut; beholding; inaccessible; lifeless; precipitous; gloomy; lifeless; variegated; flaring; relentless; soft-looking; enchanted; heaven-reaching; timberless; worshipful; huge; new; craggy; misty; fractured; snowy; moody; severed; prickly; glittering; ruddy; remote; jagged; slumbering; overhanging; pensive; ice-crowned; terraced; round-topped; sharp-peaked; redoubtable; scarlet; disintegrated; barren; symmetrical;

Verbs for Mountain
abandon—; ascend—; carve—; circumvent—; fortify—; furrow—; level—; plow through—; reconnoitre—; scale—; straddle—; trudge up—; —awes; —hinders; — looms up; —obscures; —obstructs; —overawes; —shadows; —stands sentinel; — towers.

Thesaurus
summit, superabundance, superfluity, tab, the wooded mountains, tons, tor, towering alps, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, volcano, volume, wale, wart, welt, world, worlds, Everest, Olympus, abundance, accumulation, acres, alp, bags, bald, bank, bar, barrel, barrels, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, bluff, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, bushel, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex, copiousness, countlessness, dome, dowel, drift, ear, elevation, eminence, fell, flange, flap, flood, gall, gnarl, great deal, handle, heap, heaps, height, hill, hump, hunch, impediment, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, load, lofty mountains, loop, lot, lump, mass, mesa, mole, mound, mount, much, multitude, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, numerousness, obstruction, ocean, oceans, papilloma, peak, peck, peg, pile, piles, plenitude, plenty, profusion, prominence, pyramid, quantities, quantity, rib, ridge, ring, rub, sea, shock, shoulder, sierra, sight, snag, spate, spine, stack, stacks, stud, stumbling block, style,

Etymology
, from muntaine:, from , feminine of *undefined:, alteration of  montanus:, from mons:, from  (compare Welsh mynydd:, Albanian mat:, Avestan  undefined:), from. More at menace.

Derived terms

 * Chinese mountain cat
 * faith will move mountains
 * folded mountain
 * if the mountain won't come to Muhammad
 * make a mountain out of a molehill
 * mountain ash
 * mountain bearberry
 * mountain bike
 * mountain boarding
 * mountain building
 * mountain buzzard
 * mountain cat
 * mountain chain
 * mountain climbing


 * mountain cranberry
 * mountain dew
 * mountain fever
 * mountain goat
 * mountain gorilla
 * mountain hare
 * mountain laurel
 * mountain lion
 * mountain range
 * mountain reindeer
 * mountain sheep
 * mountain sickness
 * mountain top removal mining


 * mountain unit
 * mountain zebra
 * mountaineer
 * mountaineering
 * mountainless
 * mountainous
 * mountainside
 * mountaintop
 * snow on the mountain
 * Stoliczka's mountain vole
 * table mountain
 * White Cloud Mountain minnow

Related terms

 * mount

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic: جبل
 * Aragonese:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܛܘܪܐ (Ṭūrā’)
 * Hebrew: טורא (Ṭūrā’)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Avestan:
 * Azeri: dağ
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: mendi
 * Belarusian: гара
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: menez
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: တောင်
 * Catalan: muntanya
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: adrar
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᎣᏓᎸᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 山
 * Chuvash:
 * Coptic:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: to
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Middle French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Georgian: მთა, გორა
 * German:
 * Greek: όρος, βουνό
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hawaiian: mauna, kuahiwi
 * Hebrew: הר
 * Hindi: पसंद, पर्वत, कोह
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: monto
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: montania
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 山
 * Javanese:
 * Kalmyk:
 * Kannada:, , ,
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: ភ្នំ
 * Korean: 산 (山)
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ພູ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: kalns
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lithuanian:


 * Lombard:
 * Low Saxon:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malagasy: tendrombohitra
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: പര്‍വതം (parvatham), മല (mala)
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: alin
 * Manx:
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: पर्वत (parvat)
 * Middle Persian:
 * Mongolian: уул (uul)
 * Nahuatl: tepetl
 * Navajo: dził
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fjell
 * Nynorsk: fjell
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English: ,
 * Old Irish:
 * Old Persian:
 * Ossetic:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: کوه, کوهستان
 * Pitjantjatjara: apu,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: muntogna, muntgogna, muntagna
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: गिरी (girī)
 * Scots: ben
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: планина, гора
 * Roman: planina, gora
 * Shor:
 * Sichuan Yi:
 * Sicilian: muntagna
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: thaba
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bundok
 * Tajik:
 * Taos: p’íanenemą
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: పర్వతము (parvatamu)
 * Thai: ภู, เขา
 * Tibetan: རི
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: гора
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Urdu: پہاڑ, پروت, کوہ, حبل
 * Uyghur: تاغ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, (山)
 * Waray:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: berch
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: באַרג


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: βουνό (vunó)
 * Icelandic: haugur
 * Macedonian:
 * Pashto:


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: брдо
 * Roman: brdo
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: