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Cotswold Hills

Cotswold Hills

6.3
A range of low rolling hills in southwest England with pretty stone villages
  • proper noun
translation icon : Colinas de Cotswold
  • The Cotswold Hills are famous for their charming stone villages and beautiful rural landscapes.

Examples

  • Many visitors are drawn to the Cotswold Hills for their scenic walking trails and historic towns.

  • She spent her summer hiking across the Cotswold Hills and exploring local markets.

  • The Cotswold Hills are famous for their charming villages.

  • Have you ever visited the Cotswold Hills?

  • Many visitors are drawn to the Cotswold Hills for their scenic walking trails and historic towns.

  • She spent her summer hiking across the Cotswold Hills and exploring local markets.

  • The Cotswold Hills are famous for their charming stone villages and beautiful rural landscapes.

Synonyms

Cotswolds
vsCotswold Hills
5.6

A hilly area in southwest England with pretty villages and countryside

is a smaller, specific range of low rolling hills in southwest England

Surface Forms

Cotswold Hills main

Morphology

Cotswold + hill

The phrase is compositionally transparent: it is a place-name (Cotswold) plus the noun 'hills', so it straightforwardly denotes the hills located in the Cotswold area and a learner who knows both constituents would infer this. Note that 'Cotswold' is a toponym (encyclopedic knowledge) rather than a common lexical item, so learners who do not know that specific place will lack the geographic detail even though the construction itself is transparent.

Etymology

Cotswold Hills may come from old words cot and wold. One popular story says cot meant a small 'cottage' or 'sheep shelter' and wold meant an 'open hill', so the name paints the picture of cottages and sheep on rolling hills and became the name for that area.