mountain lover
See also: mountain-lover
English
Alternative forms
Noun
mountain lover (usually uncountable, plural mountain lovers)
- Synonym of paxistima.
- 2001 November 11, Patricia A. Taylor, “Cuttings: In Flowerless Seasons, the Charm of Foliage”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
- Mountain lover is only a foot high and has a spread of three to four feet.
- (countable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mountain, lover.
- 1993 May 9, Richard Wightman, “Dolomite Dreams: The Fantastical Peaks of Northern Italy”, in The Washington Post[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 July 2025:
- It’s a landscape that Titian, the Dolomites’ most famous native son and mountain lover, captured for posterity as a background to some of his greatest paintings.