mountainside
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- noun
- /ˈmaʊn.tɪn.saɪd/
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- The hikers carefully navigated the steep mountainside as they made their way to the summit.
- a steep mountainside
- rose up the mountainside
Strands of mist wrap the mountainsides crowded with furs.
- Strands of mist wrap the mountainsides crowded with furs.
- From every mountainside, Let freedom ring.
- So like couple mountains over the whole mountainside lit up with bright lights.
Examples
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The company built a facility into the mountainside.
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Framed by steep mountainsides, the verdant Italian river plain spreads out like a tablecloth.
Academic text (2007) -
How do you build into a mountainside while being sensitive to to the beauty and of the island?
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And sure enough, we look up on the mountainside and there are three baby Grizzlies.
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Many, such as the three-roomed one at right, were cut into the rock, using the mountainside for rear walls.
Academic text (2002) -
On the nearby mountainside, small fires burn in front of portraits of Catholic saints.
Academic text (2008) -
Gesturing at the mountainside, he tells me the grass grows higher on the slope every year.
Academic text (2007) -
And I grew up in a neighborhood that was on one of the mountainsides that overlooks the Salt Lake City Valley.
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As the snowball thunders down the mountainside, gaining momentum, the Arctic foxes run for cover.
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The rain slowed to an intermittent drizzle, and mist began to creep down the mountainside in probing tendrils.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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1.0
The sloping area of a hill or mountain
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1.4
A part of land that goes up or down like the side of a hill
A slope of a hill or mountain
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Etymology
Mountainside is made of mountain and side, so it literally means the 'side' of a mountain, much like a hillside is the side of a hill. That's why a mountainside is the slope or face of a mountain where trees grow or water runs down.