mountainnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmaʊn.tɪn/us/ˈmaʊn.tən/mountain noun [ C ] (VERY LARGE HILL)
A2 a raised part of the earth's surface, much larger than a hill, the top of which might be covered in snow:
The Matterhorn is one of the biggest mountains in Europe.
The Rockies are a mountain chain/range in the western United States.
I'd love to go mountain-climbing.
We're going to the mountains (= an area where there are mountains) for our holiday.
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- We camped on one of the lower slopes of the mountain.
- The view from the top of the mountain is breathtaking.
- What's the highest mountain in Europe?
- After three days lost in the mountains, all the climbers arrived home safe and sound.
- They slowly ascended the steep path up the mountain.
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Geography: hills & mountains
- alpine
- arête
- Ben
- butte
- cirque
- cliff
- clifftop
- col
- drumlin
- hilltop
- hilly
- hummock
- incline
- knoll
- mountainous
- mountainside
- orographic
- ridge
- sheer
- shelf
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mountain noun [ C ] (LARGE AMOUNT)
a mountain of sth
C2 a large amount of something:
I've got a mountain of work to do.
UK a large amount of food that is stored instead of being sold, so that prices for it do not fall:
a grain mountain
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- lather
- outpouring
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- shower
- sight
- thousand
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Idiom(s)
make a mountain out of a molehill