foothill
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- noun
- /ˈfʊtˌhɪl/
- Two stores located in the foothills of Vermont's highest mountain illustrate the stores' attunement to their surroundings.
- foothill of a mountain
- located in the foothills
- run along the foothills
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Watch on YouTubeThey walked through Woodlands towards the foothills that hid Mount On from the lowlands of Samurai.
- They walked through Woodlands towards the foothills that hid Mount On from the lowlands of Samurai.
- I've got a couple of good friends who many, many years ago, we're riding around in the South Alabama foothills.
- So that's what I got to come away from the foothills of Tibet with and my wife and I got to go to a bunch of holy sites in northern India, which was amazing.
- What was the gold in the Adirondacks, New York foothills, the Adirondacks, upstate New York, in the woods?
Examples
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In the distance, the Ozark foothills hunkered dark and wet around the curve of the highway.
Fiction book (1993) -
After several years, a number of Nomlakis returned to settle in the foothills of their old territory....
Academic text (2000) -
The sun was halfway behind a foothill in the direction we had come from.
Fiction book (1991) -
Do you want us to head into the foothills?
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The foothills will be full of caves.
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By late afternoon, they had climbed high into the foothills, close against the base of the mountains.
Fiction book (1991) -
They're in the foothills south of here.
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Boardwalks form a path to the study sites, with the foothills of the Alaska Range visible in the distance.
Academic text (2008) -
The Sawiyano live largely in the foothills, the areas between 40 and 300 meters elevation.
Academic text (1992) -
The village lies nestled in the foothills of the majestic Rockies.
Synonyms
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1.0
A raised area of land that is not as high as a mountain
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2.4
A small upward slope in land or a surface
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1.7
A small raised area of earth or stones
A gentle slope at the base of a mountain that leads to flat land
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Etymology
Foothill is made of foot and hill, so imagine a hill at the 'base' of a mountain, like a foot at the bottom of a body. That's why a foothill is a low hill that forms the lower slopes of a mountain.