What Is The Difference Between Mount And Mountain?
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Mount is a related term of mountain.
As nouns the difference between mount and mountain
is that mount is a mountain or mount can be an animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse while mountain is a large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 3048 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains.
As a verb mount
is to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs .
is thatis a mountain orcan be an animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse whileis a large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 3048 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger chúng tôi to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs .
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) munt, from (etyl) , from a root seen also in
(English eminent).
Noun
(en noun)
- Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
Usage notes
* Used chiefly in poetry, but also in the names of specific mountains, e.g. “Mount Everest”.
Derived terms
* (abbreviation)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) mounten, from (etyl) mounter, from (etyl) monter, from ; compare French monter.
Noun
(en noun)
- The rider climbed onto his mount .
- The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
- The General said he has 2,000 mounts .
Verb
(en verb)
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Synonyms
* See also
Antonyms
* dismount
* demount
* unmount
* amount
* mountain
* paramount
* surmount
English
Noun
(en noun)
- Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
- We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains .
- There’s still a mountain of work to do.
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Derived terms
* Chinese mountain cat
* faith will move mountains
* folded mountain
* have a mountain to climb
* if the mountain won’t come to Muhammad
* make a mountain out of a molehill
* 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
* mountaineer
* mountaineering
* mountainless
* mountainous
* mountainside
* mountaintop
* snow on the mountain
* Stoliczka’s mountain vole
* table mountain
* White Cloud Mountain minnow
* mount
See also
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References
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Anagrams
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1000 English basic words
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