mountainer

A person who lives in a mountainous area.

Noun

  1. A person who lives in a mountainous area.
    • […] in the Countrey of Attica there were as many factions as there were diuerse sorts of the territorie: for the Mountainers were Democraticall; those of the champion countrey, Oligarchical; and they that dwelt neer the...
    • He also sent Embassadors to the Mountainers of the Pyrenes, & to the Gaules, to obtaine a quiet passage: - 1614, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Book 5, Chapter 3, p. 427:
    • Vossius […] makes the highest MOUNTAIN there not to exceed Ten Furlongs; Which, saith Vossius, it is scarce possible for any one to reach, unless he be a Mountainer born; any other will scarce be able to ascend above...

    Synonyms: highlander mountaineer

Origin

From mountain + -er.

Forms

mountainers