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Meanings of mountaintop in English

The highest point of a mountain.

Usage of mountaintop in English
1
Believe I have seen the mountaintop and am careening down its slopes.
My Life, My Tapes
2
Church groups urge congregants to write to Congress to stop mountaintop mining.
Reuters
3
Thou art even as the last trace of sunlight upon the mountaintop.
The Promised Day Is Come
4
By the tenth dawn no birds had been taken on the mountaintop.
Vlad. The Last Confession
5
The dawn light on the mountaintop made everything so beautiful and blue.
Stories: all-new tales
6
From an environmental perspective, it's the digital equivalent of mountaintop-removal coal mining.
NY Magazine
7
Below the other side of the mountaintop was a platform of forest.
Lord of the Flies
8
They spoke together while Indru and Tlitookilakin waited, shivering on the mountaintop.
Promise of the wolves: a novel
9
The warriors leapt and grabbed onto the cables leading toward the mountaintop.
Book Three: The Final Exodus
10
To begin a mountaintop-removal operation, crews clear trees from the site.
Wired
11
Under this and other regulations, environmentally destructive mountaintop-mining operations are supposedly not allowed.
Wired
12
The end came quickly in the blue twilight of the mountaintop.
Immortality Inc.
13
It is done in other jurisdictions and in no way defaces the mountaintop.
The Irish Times
14
Activists have fought a losing legal battle against mountaintop removal mining.
Wired
15
Where the roadway ended, a small path revealed our route to the mountaintop.
Rock and Ice Magazine
16
I couldn't tell which of the many wolves on the mountaintop had spoken.
Secrets of the Wolves
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common