mountain

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Etimologie

Din engleza medie mountaine, care provine din anglo-normandă muntaine < latină populară *montānea; forma feminină al lui *montāneus care este o alterare al lui montānus < mōns.

Pronunție

• AFI: /'maʊntn/

Substantiv

mountain, pl. mountains

1. munte

   The city is surrounded by snowy mountains.

2. (fig.) grămadă, munte, noian

   There's still a mountain of work to do.

3. (fig.) problemă sau cerere dificilă

Cuvinte derivate

• mountaineer
• mountaineering
• mountainless
• mountainous
• mountainside
• mountaintop

Cuvinte compuse

cuvinte compuse

Chinese mountain cat folded mountain 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 Stoliczka's mountain vole table mountain White Cloud Mountain minnow

Cuvinte apropiate

• mount

Expresii

• faith will move mountains
• have a mountain to climb
• if the mountain won't come to Muhammad
• make a mountain out of a molehill
• snow on the mountain

Referințe

• Dictionary.com
• Wiktionary