noun
a man who lives on the frontier
• Syn: ↑frontiersman, ↑backwoodsman
• Hypernyms: ↑pioneer
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Boone, ↑Daniel Boone, ↑Carson, ↑Kit Carson, ↑Christopher Carson, ↑Crockett, ↑Davy Crockett, ↑David Crockett
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noun1. : mountaineer 1a
2. : a pioneering frontiersman (as a trapper or trader) at home in wilderness country
trappers, traders, scouts, hunters, guides — whatever they were … they were all mountain men — Frank Waters
all the way across the continent there would be an advance screen of long hunters and mountain men — Bernard DeVoto
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1. mountaineer (def. 1).
2. a man who lives and works in the mountains or wilderness, esp. a frontiersman or pioneer, as in the early American West.
[1685-95]
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mountain man,
a person who lives in the mountains; mountaineer.
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a man who lives alone in the mountains, especially one who catches and kills animals for their fur
Useful english dictionary. 2012.