slope
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1.4
- noun
- /sloʊp/
- They built a small cabin on the grassy slope of the mountain.
- a steep slope
- a slippery slope
- mountain slopes
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Watch on YouTubeHe's living it up on the slopes, hopefully staying intact.
- He's living it up on the slopes, hopefully staying intact.
- You're sliding back down that slope in the other direction.
- Lining them with ski slopes, Kentish Town, Moss Side, Bramhall.
- And right outside the tunnel, there's this like really fast down slope part of the freeway.
- You go home that night and you're back on the slopes within a few weeks, OK?
- And Feston went slowly down the far slope of the Hill of Being under new stars.
- And then the next morning went down this crazy sketchy Cliff slope thing into an underground river.
- There's this, which is like hitting the slopes.
- Well, this is on the hillside, on the on the slope, so and so, yeah, so that.
Examples
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Richard's father walked carefully up the slope and gazed upward again at the transformation.
Fiction book (1991) -
Next, you can see the slope looking downwards.
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Listen, the parking area has a slope to it.
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The garden, such as it was, lay on the slope to the south of the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
You ever walked down a slope with dress shoes on?
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And don't park on a slope.
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I found him at the bottom of a small slope, surrounded by kilted men.
Fiction book (1991) -
Or the Asklepieion, which is high up on the slope of this small mountain ridge on the island.
Academic text (2011) -
Usually it rains along the slopes, but today it was sunny and clear.
Academic text (1990) -
Shreds of mist raced up the slopes toward them like horses running uphill.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
166
3.0
A raised slope of earth beside water or a road
59
1.0
A sloping side of a hill
48
1.0
The sloping area of a hill or mountain
23
1.9
A side of a mountain that slopes down
18
4.2
A sloping surface that connects different levels
13
3.4
How much a surface goes up or down from flat
1
4.9
A sloping side of a hill
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
2
6.7
A downward path a plane follows when approaching a runway guided by instruments
- Specialized
1
7.4
The steep part of the sea floor that drops from a continent's edge to the deep ocean floor
How Steep
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slope often means the side of a hill because it is a surface that 'leans' and can make you slide, like a snowy slide down a hill. That's why a slope is the slanted ground on a hill or mountain.