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# chamois

noun (plural chamois)

«chamois» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A chamois is a small wild animal like a goat, with short horns, that lives high in mountains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/#m1)

### In the lessons

in mountain stories, a hunter tracks and catches chamois on steep slopes

### Examples

- "Many a chamois have I crushed." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/#x1)
- He saw two chamois high up the mountain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/#x2)
- His uncle was a chamois hunter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/#x3)

### Note

in a count the word stays the same: 2 chamois, 5 chamois

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «chamois» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«chamois» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/chamois.html) on Mova free.