Rainier

American

[ruh-neer, rey-, rey-neer] / rəˈnɪər, reɪ-, ˈreɪ nɪər /

noun

Mount, a volcanic peak in W Washington, in the Cascade Range. 14,408 feet (4,392 meters).

Rainier British

/ ˈreɪnɪə, rə-, reɪˈnɪə /

noun

a mountain in W Washington State: the highest mountain in the state and in the Cascade Range. Height: 4392 m (14 410 ft)

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On one side you have the skyscrapers of Seattle city while on the other you have the snow-capped peak of Mount Rainier rising high above the stands.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Visitors can enjoy oysters along the Puget Sound or spend a day hiking at Mount Rainier National Park.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Within a few years, they were leading novices up Mount Rainier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

It has said it expects to be using more than one million Trainium 2 chips by the end of the year, including its use of the Project Rainier supercomputer with nearly 500,000 Trainium processors.

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

Like Joe, he had grown up in a small town, Puyallup, between Tacoma and the foothills of Mount Rainier.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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