English Explanatory Dictionary

climb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To ascend; rise; to go up.
  2. To move to a higher position on a chart or hierarchy.
  3. To mount; to move upwards on.
  4. To scale; to get to the top of something.
  5. To enter, mount or otherwise assume a position in or on a conveyance.
  6. To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
  7. To practise the sport of climbing.
  8. To jump high.
  9. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
noun
  1. An act of climbing.
  2. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
  3. An effort of moving upward.

Pronunciation

klīm /klaɪm/ en-us-climb.ogg

Word forms

climb climbs climbing climbed clomb clumb no-table-tags glossary climbest climbedst climbeth

Etymology

From Middle English climben, clymben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *klibaną, *klibāną (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue.

Synonyms

scale

Derived words

ants climbing a tree bullet climb climbability climbable climb down climb down someone's throat climber climbing gourami climbing lane climbing maidenhair fern climbing nightshade climbing perch climb into climb on the bandwagon climb the ladder climb the walls climb up climb up the ladder declimb free-climb go climb a tree have a mountain to climb lead climb monkey-no-climb mountain to climb overclimb rock-climb step climb unclimbed upclimb anti-climb climb-down climb-out climb rate cruise climb hill climb rate of climb rate of climb indicator uphill climb zoom climb climbdown climby downclimb freeclimb hillclimb misclimb outclimb reclimb unclimb unclimbable

Translations

Aklanon: saka' Albanian: ngjit Albanian: hip Albanian: m'u nit (gheg) Southern Altai: кӧдӱрӱлер Arabic: تَسَلَّقَ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܣܹܩ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܪܵܝܹܡ Armenian: բարձրանալ Assamese: বগা Balinese: menék Balinese: munggah Bangi: bata Central Bikol: sakat Breton: pignat Bulgarian: качвам се Bulgarian: изкачвам се Catalan: escalar Catalan: muntar Cebuano: saka Chinese Mandarin: 登 Czech: růst Dutch: klimmen Esperanto: supreniri Estonian: ronima Estonian: tõusma Finnish: kohota Finnish: nousta Finnish: yletä Finnish: kivuta French: grimper French: monter Georgian: აცოცება Georgian: აძრომა German: klettern German: steigen Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 Greek: ανεβαίνω Gujarati: ચઢવું Hebrew: עלה Hebrew: האמיר Higaonon: paminahik Hindi: चढ़ना Hungarian: felmegy Hungarian: felmászik Icelandic: klifra Indonesian: mendaki Indonesian: memanjat Irish: ardaigh Irish: téigh suas Irish: gabh suas Italian: arrampicare Italian: scalare Italian: salire Japanese: 登る Javanese: mundhak Javanese: pènèk Old Javanese: nek Old Javanese: uṇḍa Kashmiri: کھَسُن Kongo: manta Korean: 오르다
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