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Munro /mʌnˈrəʊ /noun (plural Munros)Any of the 277 mountains in Scotland that are at least 3,000 feet high (approximately 914 metres).The idea was to try to encourage enough hillwalkers to stand atop all of Scotland's Munros, the mountains over 3000 feet in height, at 12 noon on the first Sunday in May....- The jagged Cuillin ridge, featuring 12 of Scotland's 284 Munros forms a glorious backdrop.
- Greg, a traffic warden, has climbed at least 130 of the Munros - the name given to mountains over 3,000 ft in Scotland.
OriginEarly 20th century: named after Sir Hugh Thomas Munro (1856–1919), who published a list of all such mountains in the Journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club for 1891. Rhymesaglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou |