mountaintop

See also: mountain top

English

Etymology

From mountain +‎ top.

Noun

mountaintop (plural mountaintops)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• mountaintopism
• mountaintop removal
• snow on the mountaintop
• there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley

Translations

the summit of a mountain

• Afrikaans: bergspits
• Dutch: bergtop (nl)
• Faroese: fjallatindur m
• Finnish: vuorenhuippu (fi)
• Galician: cume (gl) m, cima f, cimbro (gl) m
• German: Berggipfel (de) m, Bergspitze (de) f
• Greek: καταράχι (el) n (kataráchi), βουνοκορφή (el) f (vounokorfí)
• Hungarian: hegytető (hu), hegycsúcs (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەرچیا (ckb) (serçya)

• Northern Sami: gáisá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjelltopp m

  Nynorsk: fjelltopp m

• Russian: горная верши́на (gornaja veršína)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wjerch m

• Swedish: bergstopp (sv) c

Adjective

mountaintop (not comparable)

1. Situated or occurring on the summit of a mountain.