climbable

climbable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English climb
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English climbable

    From climb + -able.

    Adjective

    climbable (comparative more climbable, superlative most climbable)

    1. able to be climbed
      • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days‎[1]:
        The sound of 'Shoot! Shoot!' got farther away—they were skipping for the nearest climbable trees.
      • 2015, Turtle Bunbury, "Beyond the blarney: the best hidden gems in Ireland" in The Guardian, Travel, 16 March, 2015, [2]
        Dursey Island is a walkers’ paradise, celebrated for its nesting colonies of seabirds, the eminently climbable Cnoc Bólais hill and a signal tower built over 200 years ago to keep watch for Napoleon’s fleet.

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