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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.