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climb down |
climb on |
climb up |
climb-down |
climbable |
climber
| climbing
| climbing bird's nest fern
| climbing bittersweet
| climbing boneset
| climbing corydalis
climber
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun climber has 5 senses
- climber(n = noun.plant) Array - a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants; Array has particulars: clematis, legume, leguminous plant, agdestis, genus agdestis, climbing fern, root climber
- climber(n = noun.person) social climber - someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior; Array has particulars: lion-hunter
- climber(n = noun.person) mounter - someone who ascends on foot; "a solitary mounter of the staircase" is a kind of ascender
- climber(n = noun.person) Array - someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains; "the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes" is a kind of athlete, jock
- climber(n = noun.artifact) climbing iron, crampon, crampoon - an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing; Array is a kind of spike
is a kind of vine
Derived form verb climb1
is a kind of arriviste, nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart
Derived form verb climb5
Derived form verb climb1
has particulars: escalader, mountain climber, mountaineer, cragsman, rock climber
Derived form verb climb1
Derived form verb climb1
CIDE DICTIONARY
climber, n.
One who, or that which, climbs [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
climber, n.
1 a mountaineer.
2 a climbing plant.
3 a person with strong social etc. aspirations.
1 a mountaineer.
2 a climbing plant.
3 a person with strong social etc. aspirations.
THESAURUS
climber
adventurer, algae, alpinist, ascender, astronaut, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, camper, comers and goers, commuter, conferva, confervoid, cosmopolite, cragsman, creeper, cruiser, diatom, excursionist, explorer, fare, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, hajji, herb, heterophyte, ivy, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mariner, mold, moss, mountaineer, mushroom, palmer, parasite, parasitic plant, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, pilgrim, pioneer, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rust, sailor, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sightseer, smut, straphanger, succulent, toadstool, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, upclimber, vetch, viator, vine, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler, wort, wrack
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