Mountain

Definition

mountain /'maƱntǝn; US -ntn / n ၁။ ေတာင္။ distant snowcapped mountains towering over the plains below ❍ a climbing holiday in the mountains ❍ (Mount) Everest is the highest mountain in the world. ❍ a chain/range (ie a row or series) of mountains ❍ a mountain chain/range ❍ mountain peaks/paths/streams ❍ the invigorating mountain air. ၂။ (often pl ) ~ of sth ေတာင္ပံုရာပံု။ mountains of food/paperwork ❍ a mountain of debts/problems. ၃။ (usu sing ) ေတာင္ပံုရာပံု ပိုလွ်ံပစၥည္း။ the European Community's butter mountain. ❏ make a mountain out of a molehill [ IDM ] ( derog )ေလွ်ာေမြးႏွင့္ဗာရာဏသီခ်ဲ႕သည္။ ေရးႀကီး ခြင့္က်ယ္ လုပ္သည္။ ❏ mountain bike n လမ္းၾကမ္းစီးစက္ဘီး။ ❏ mountaineer /maƱntǝ'nÇǝ(r); US -ntn'Çǝr / n ေတာင္တက္သမား။ ❏ mountaineering n [U] ေတာင္တက္ျခင္း။ a mountaineering expedition. ❏ mountainous /'maƱntǝnǝs / adj ၁ ။ ေတာင္ ထူထပ္ေသာ။ mountainous country/terrain. ၂။ အလြန္ႀကီးမားေသာ။ ေတာင္ကဲ့သို႔ ျမင့္ေမာက္ေသာ။ mountainous waves.

Examples

1. They went walking and climbing in the mountains.
2. Spectacular mountain scenery
3. There was still snow on the mountain tops.
4. [mountain of] : He was buried under a mountain of paperwork.
5. The European butter mountain