mountain peak
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈmaʊntən piːk/
:
cima montañosa
- On a clear day, you can see the entire valley from the mountain peak.
- the high mountain peaks
- mountain peaks rise
- surrounded by mountain peaks
An entire Himalayan valley chiseled every mountain peak to base.
- An entire Himalayan valley chiseled every mountain peak to base.
Examples
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The Upper Northern Territory has a number of high mountain peaks.
Academic text (1997) -
Here, mountain peaks rise up to 3,600 meters above sea level.
Academic text (2005) -
All day your father has been stepping from one mountain peak to another.
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I climbed a mountain peak so high.
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Nothing you can see, even from a mountain peak, is farther than an hour's flight away.
Fiction book (1998) -
We spent a couple of hours exploring the area, hiking from one mountain peak to another.
Blog text (5) -
Scartaris is a mountain peak near the volcano.
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All around were the snowy spires of mountain peaks.
Academic text (1996) -
Ahead, as far as the eye could see, stretched miles of blue-green forest and dozens of mountain peaks rising up out of the mist one after the other.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Yellowstone plateau is perched high in the central Rocky Mountains and surrounded by lofty mountain peaks.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
368
2.1
The highest point something reaches, like a mountain or an achievement
89
3.6
The highest point of a hill or mountain
46
2.5
The highest point of a mountain
34
3.9
The highest part of a hill, mountain or road
20
4.4
The top point of something, like a mountain or pyramid
11
3.7
The top level that something reaches
4
6.3
A high pointed rock that forms a peak
2
4.9
A high mountain with snow like those in the Alps
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4.2
The top part of a long narrow hill or mountain
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9.9
A sharp, pointed mountain peak like a thin rock spire
1
3.5
The very top point of something like a tree or mountain
1
7.2
The highest point of something, like a mountain or pyramid
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the pointed top or highest part of a mountain' is directly derivable from combining 'mountain' (a high natural landform) and 'peak' (the highest or pointed top of an object). This is a literal, compositional noun compound with no idiomatic shift and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Mountain peak comes from the simple picture of a mountain with a sharp peak sticking up above everything else. That clear image is why mountain peak means 'the pointed top' or 'the highest part' of a mountain.