: an American frontiersman (such as a trapper) at home in the wilderness
Examples of mountain man in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebIrion started thinking of the project as the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, inspired in part by 1972’s Jeremiah Johnson, which starred Robert Redford as a mountain man.—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024 The two old mountain men looked each other in the eye.—Alex Traub, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024 Bull died in 2014 at 89. 11 of 16
Victor French as Isaiah Edwards
Victor French portrayed Isaiah Edwards in Little House on the Prairie, a mountain man who later settled in Walnut Grove.—Melissa Girimonte, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024 There’s also the elaborate animal-catching ingenuity of a mountain man (Wes Tank) who inspires him.—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mountain man
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