alpinism
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Noun edit
alpinism (usually uncountable, plural alpinisms)
- (sometimes capitalized) Mountain climbing.
- Synonyms: mountaineering, mountain climbing
- 1912, “New Maps,”, in Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, volume 44, number 7, page 558:
- . . . our rapidly increasing knowledge of the Rocky Mountains of Canada for which geography is so greatly indebted to alpinism.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
mountain climbing — see mountaineering
Further reading edit
mountaineering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French alpinisme.
Noun edit
alpinism n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of alpinism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) alpinism | alpinismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) alpinism | alpinismului |
| vocative | alpinismule | |