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 .BritishArchaic. 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.
Idioms for mountain
make a mountain out of a molehill. molehill (def. 2).
Origin of mountain
1175–1225; Middle English mountaine<Old French montaigne<Vulgar Latin *montānea, noun use of feminine of *montāneus, equivalent to Latin montān(us) mountainous (mont-, stem of mōns mountain + -ānus-an) + -eus adj. suffix
At the moment, you are racing against three other riders up one of the mountains.
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They lowered the price of gasoline, charging less than the station at the bottom of the mountain and less than the stations up in Shaver.
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At the park’s eastern Rincon Mountain District, mountain bikers will find a section of singletrack that links to more than 800 miles of dirt riding along the Arizona Trail.
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.