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A Scottish surname, variant of Monroe
Any Scottish mountain having a height of more than 3,000 feet; named after Sir Hugh Thomas Munro, Scottish mountaineer
{i} family name; Alice Munro (born 1931), Canadian short story author; Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), British short story author who used the pen name "Saki"; group of hills in Scotland (named after Sir Hugh Munro)
one of the 277 mountains in Scotland that are 3000 feet high or higher. The word is used by people who climb mountains as a sport
British writer of short stories (1870-1916)

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Munro bagger
A mountaineer who aims to climb as many of the Munros (Scottish mountains higher than 3,000 feet) as possible

Also, among party employees, being a Scot or a Munro-bagger, or both, is a good path to promotion.

Alice Munro
orig. Alice Anne Laidlaw born July 10, 1931, Wingham, Ont., Can. Canadian writer. She is known for exquisitely drawn short stories, usually set in rural Ontario and peopled by characters of Scotch-Irish stock. Her collections Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), and The Progress of Love (1986) won the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Her other collections include Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), Friend of My Youth (1986), Open Secrets (1994), The Love of a Good Woman (1998), and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
H H Munro
orig. H(ector) H(ugh) Munro born Dec. 18, 1870, Akyab, Burma died Nov. 14, 1916, near Beaumont-Hamel, France Scottish writer. A journalist early in his career, he wrote political satires and worked as a foreign correspondent before settling in London in 1908. His comic short stories and sketches, which satirize the Edwardian social scene, were published in Reginald (1904), Reginald in Russia (1910), The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), and Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914); the best-known include "Tobermory" and "The Open Window." Studded with epigrams and with well-contrived plots, his stories reveal a vein of cruelty and a self-identification with the enfant terrible. He was killed in action in World War I
Hector Hugh Munro
(1870-1916) British short story author who used the pen name "Saki
Hector Hugh Munro
orig. H(ector) H(ugh) Munro born Dec. 18, 1870, Akyab, Burma died Nov. 14, 1916, near Beaumont-Hamel, France Scottish writer. A journalist early in his career, he wrote political satires and worked as a foreign correspondent before settling in London in 1908. His comic short stories and sketches, which satirize the Edwardian social scene, were published in Reginald (1904), Reginald in Russia (1910), The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), and Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914); the best-known include "Tobermory" and "The Open Window." Studded with epigrams and with well-contrived plots, his stories reveal a vein of cruelty and a self-identification with the enfant terrible. He was killed in action in World War I
Sir Hugh Thomas Munro
{i} (1856-1919) avid English mountaineer who was brought up in Scotland and after whom the Munro hills were named
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