mountain-likeadj.adv.
/ˈmaʊntᵻnˌlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈmaʊnt(ə)nˌlaɪk/ Resembling a mountain in size or shape. Also as adv.
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1599 H. Petowe Pleasant Hist. Philochasander & Elanira. xvii There sits my loue like Ioue in heauens throne, That mountaine like still standeth, so stands she.
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse iv. iv, in Wks. II. 151 I thinke, a barren head, Sir, Mountaine-like, To be expos'd to the cruelty of weathers.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 50 A raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us.
1828 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 1 116 Clouds, which, though mountainlike..are but dyed vapour.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. iii. 225 Oh mouse-birth of that mountain-like revenge!
1993 Sci. Amer. Apr. 10/2 The images depict a jagged, mountainlike terrain corresponding to a two-dimensional slice of space.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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