mountain man

noun

a man who lives on the frontier

• Syn: ↑frontiersman, ↑backwoodsman

• Hypernyms: ↑pioneer

• Instance Hyponyms:

↑Boone, ↑Daniel Boone, ↑Carson, ↑Kit Carson, ↑Christopher Carson, ↑Crockett, ↑Davy Crockett, ↑David Crockett

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noun

1. : mountaineer 1a

2. : a pioneering frontiersman (as a trapper or trader) at home in wilderness country

trappers, traders, scouts, hunters, guides — whatever they were … they were all mountain men — Frank Waters

all the way across the continent there would be an advance screen of long hunters and mountain men — Bernard DeVoto

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1. mountaineer (def. 1).

2. a man who lives and works in the mountains or wilderness, esp. a frontiersman or pioneer, as in the early American West.

[1685-95]

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mountain man,

a person who lives in the mountains; mountaineer.

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ˈmountain man 7 [mountain man] noun (NAmE)

a man who lives alone in the mountains, especially one who catches and kills animals for their fur