hilltop
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1.5
- noun
- /ˈhɪltɑp/
:
cima
- We reached the hilltop just in time to see the sunset over the valley.
- hilltop site
- hilltop town
- hilltop villages
But you can't get those resources out to the hilltops without helicopters.
- But you can't get those resources out to the hilltops without helicopters.
- It was a hilltop town in the South in summer.
- It was this this hilltop that overlooked the valley.
- Then they came again, and the earth, lush under his belly and one side of the hilltop, rose into the air and fell slowly over them.
- A beautiful beach alongside a rugged hilltop climate.
- We must still face prodigious hilltops of opposition and gigantic mountains of resistance.
- So she is going to walk up up to the hilltop and there's a path, excuse me, there's a path in the woods that goes to the tail top.
Examples
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Kimble unlocks his leg irons and runs in the other direction, crossing a hilltop in the moonlight.
Fiction book (1993) -
I was in Assisi, a perfectly picturesque hilltop town in the Umbrian countryside.
Academic text (2011) -
See that hilltop over there?
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The screaming came from the hilltop where I had been standing a few minutes before.
Fiction book (1996) -
Let's go to the hilltop where you first showed me the sunrise.
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I always imagined you getting married on a hilltop.
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The boy and old man were sitting on the hilltop, inside a little bowl of packed sand.
Fiction book (2001) -
I don't know why you picked the hilltop.
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The palace sprawled over an entire hilltop in the southeast quarter of the city.
Fiction book (1990) -
The fields have been harvested, and the trees on the hilltops are changing color.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
368
2.1
The highest point something reaches, like a mountain or an achievement
89
3.6
The highest point of a hill or mountain
34
3.9
The highest part of a hill, mountain or road
7
7.4
The top edge of a hill or slope
4
6.3
A high pointed rock that forms a peak
1
4.2
The top part of a long narrow hill or mountain
1
3.5
The very top point of something like a tree or mountain
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hilltop is a simple combination of hill 'a raised area of land' and top 'the highest point', so it literally means the highest point of a hill and is used when you stand or look from that very top.