fourteener

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noun

A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.

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Meanings

nounfourteener (plural fourteeners)

plural fourteeners

  1. USclimbingA mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
  2. communicationsA (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.

    He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.

    1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography

Origin

From fourteen + -er.

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APA

fourteener. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fourteener

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“fourteener.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fourteener. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fourteener,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fourteener.

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