alpinism

1. 1.

   mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps)

   Broadermountain climbing

Other forms of alpinism

plural

alpinisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alpinism

What does alpinism mean?

alpinism means "mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps)".

How many syllables are in alpinism?

alpinism has 3 syllables and divides as al-pi-nism under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.