Mountain Man (Noun)
Meaning
A man who lives on the frontier.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The rugged individualist had become a legendary mountain man known for his remarkable tracking skills.
- John "Grizzly" Adams was an iconic American mountain man of the 19th century, a fur trapper, explorer, and author.
- Trained in wilderness survival by a wise mountain man, she knew she could make it out alive on her own.
- Early one morning the lost travelers spotted a wild-eyed mountain man stalking elk with his musket slung low over his back.
- Basing himself on observations by contemporary hunters, scientists sought the input of one notable 1960s Wyoming mountain man named Smoke Elser to piece together pre- and post-baseline distribution records for big horn sheep and white mountain goat ranges