mountain man

noun

1. mountaineer.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mountain man¹

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

He re-teamed with Pollack in “Jeremiah Johnson,” in which he played a mountain man who becomes the object of a vendetta.

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Ethan Dexter looks like a mountain man hunk, but in his private life, he’s lost in the wilderness when it comes to women.

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Among its first eternal residents was a mountain man who killed a grizzly bear and vice versa somewhere out in Malibu.

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It was heaven for a 20-something mountain man who could climb and backcountry ski to his heart’s content while working in one of the world’s most stunning alpine settings.

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Slim and handsome in a green shirt with a honey-colored beard, he looked like a real mountain man.

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