mountain man

1. 1.

   a man who lives on the frontier

   Synonymsfrontiersmanbackwoodsman

   Broaderpioneer

   NarrowerBooneCarsonCrockett

Questions about mountain man

What does mountain man mean?

mountain man means "a man who lives on the frontier".

What is another word for mountain man?

Close synonyms include frontiersman, backwoodsman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mountain man a common word?

mountain man is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.