mountaintop
mountaintop
Definition
mountain·top (--täp′)
noun
the top of a mountain
mountaintop
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- obscure: Across the choppy Menai Strait storm clouds were obscuring the mountaintops.
- cover: Deposits of colored dust on snow covered European mountaintops has been seen on many occasions.
- hug: Visibility was very good but low cloud was hugging the mountaintops and persisted over Anglesey.
Adjective modifier
- high: All these things have been shouted from the highest mountaintops over the last three months.
- mainland: Visibility was good but the mainland mountaintops were obscured in cloud.
Modifies a noun
- mining: For the last few years, he's been schooling himself on such issues as water quality and mountaintop removal strip mining.
- removal: Under previous rules, the corps could not authorize the burying of streams with mountaintop removal waste.
- view: Here is a short list of the reasons I am not happy with the ' mountaintop view ' .
- coal: On Thursday, Richardson will add his voice to the ongoing battle against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.
- village: Spend the night in a simple hotel in a small mountaintop village.
- retreat: Lipstadt states that I described my visit to Hitler's mountaintop retreat ( at Berchtesgaden ) as a spiritual experience.
Browse dictionary entries near mountaintop
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- mountainous
- mountaineer
- Mountain View
- Mountain Time
- Mountain State
- Mountain Standard Time
- mountain sickness
- mountain sheep
- mountain range
- Mountbatten
- mountebank
- mounted
- Mountie
- mounting
- mourn
- mourner
- mourners' bench
- mournful
- mournfully
