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English
Etymology
From mountain + top.
Pronunciation
Noun
mountaintop (plural mountaintops)
- The summit of a mountain.
2007, Hal Laza, The Green Embrace, page 77:So we follow dear Jenny along the mountaintop trail, until it descends to the forest below, where Maple and Oak, and violet Trefoil, and velvety Viburnum grow; where polynose clusters hang from Striped Maple, and Cinnamon Ferns that show.
2016, Claire Krulikowski, Moonlight on the Ganga:While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.
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Adjective
mountaintop (not comparable)
- Situated or occurring on the summit of a mountain.