How do you use the word "mountain" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "mountain" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "mountain": We think it is very dangerous that you're climbing the mountain alone. Seen against the sky, the mountain looked really beautiful.

Mountain Meaning

/ˈmaʊn.tɪn/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.

nounSomething very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.

Sentence Examples

We think it is very dangerous that you're climbing the mountain alone.

Seen against the sky, the mountain looked really beautiful.

What's the highest mountain in the US?

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

pot lot mess

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

From the valley, we could see the snow-covered ____ in the distance.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We am planning to hike up the ____ next weekend to enjoy the spectacular panoramic views of the entire valley from the very summit.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native English barrow (from Old English beorg) and down (from Old English dūn), and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 50:6:

"Wherever a geologist directs his attention in the midst of a scene of mountains, traces of ruin and decay always meet his eye; and the lofty prominences of our globe, supposed to be the most permanent of nature's works, every where display unequivocal marks of the lapse and effects of time." — 1807, Joseph Wilson, “Preliminary Observations”, in A History of Mountains, Geographical and Mineralogical, volume 1, London: Nicol, White, Faulders & Asperne, pages xlvi–xlvii:

"We walk’d together on the crown Of a high mountain which look’d down Afar from its proud natural towers Of rock and forest, on the hills— […]" — 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

"Iraq says the mountain of documentation it has provided to the United Nations shows it is innocent of harbouring weapons of mass destruction. America continues to maintain that it has evidence that this is a pack of lies." — 2002 December 9, “A Mountain of Lies?”, in The Economist:

"Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity." — 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

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