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climber is a noun meaning "a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants
someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior
someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains
“the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes”
an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for climber come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.