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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

爬

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pá

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Climb/klaɪm/
verbnounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #850 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"尽管天气不好,她决定爬山。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To go or come up a slope, incline, or staircase.

    "She decided to climb the mountain despite the bad weather."
As noun
  1. 1

    An act of climbing.

    "The climb to the summit took several hours."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'climban', of West Germanic origin, meaning to climb or creep. It shares roots with the Old High German 'klimban' and Old Norse 'klimpr', evolving historically to describe moving upward with physical effort.

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