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mountaintop

[ moun-tn-top ]

noun

  1. the top tops or summit of a mountain.


adjective

  1. situated at the top tops or summit of a mountain:

    a mountaintop house.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mountaintop1

First recorded in 1585–95; mountain + top 1

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Example Sentences

From high mountaintops and ridges, we had expansive views of mountains and valleys in every direction.

The range of conditions I need a pair of pants to perform in includes everything from spending time on a mountaintop in minus-30-degree temperatures to sitting in front of the fire at home.

Some programs still haven’t made it back to the mountaintop — such as USC, which has tried Lane Kiffin, Steve Sarkisian and now Clay Helton since Pete Carroll left for the NFL.

They’ll hire a new GM, find a new coach, swap out some players, send draft picks flying around the league — all in an effort to climb the mountaintop for the first time since 1995.

The state spent more than $10 million to buy the land, build a bridge over the Cumberland River and run a three-lane, paved road up to the mountaintop, where the industrial park would be located.

Set on a mountaintop, the complex is layered, with platforms, walls, and other areas where people line up to watch those entering.

Safe within his mountaintop fortress, Escobar grew bolder and more unscrupulous.

Listen, it takes a lot of effort to twirl energetically on a mountaintop and make it look good.

She made an appearance at the February 2009, I Love Mountains rally in Frankfurt, Ky. to speak out against mountaintop removal.

In the excerpt below, they detail the effects of coal mining in West Virginia, a state destroyed by mountaintop removal also.

We have dared the fiery desert and the frozen mountaintop, the demons of thirst, starvation, and savage warfare.

Then here, on this mountaintop, with the world below me and nothing above me but the sun, I shall live my own truth.

Every nook and corner, every mountaintop and valley is shrouded in sorrow for this crime against the nation.

When we came down from the cold mountaintop, my mind was made up: mathematics would be abandoned.

That was the foundation of that persistent praying and sevenfold watching on the mountaintop.

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