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hillside

hillside

65 1.0
A sloping side of a hill
  • noun
  • /ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/
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  • The children loved playing on the hillside where they could run freely among the wildflowers.
  • a steep hillside
  • a hillside overlooking
  • a covered hillside

And they're like, you showed a sliver of the hillside through the bathroom in your last video.

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Examples

  • The fawns browsed the shreds of dry grass on the hillside, while the doe tested the air.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • In fact, it has less natural productivity than the fertile hillsides of the central region.

    Academic text (1997)
  • So we sent out a camera over and over, and we got back photos of the same location, a hillside with trees.

  • Climb right up on the hillside, a different view of my life.

  • The burned surface of the hillside began to turn itself over and disappear.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • "Grant turned and saw two children coming down the hillside, led by Ed Regis.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The school is on a hillside above the white clapboard houses of the nearby town.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • But the crutch was useless on a steep hillside of deep grass and snow.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • They were standing on a hillside high over Alicante, and below them, the city was burning.

  • To the family's astonishment, the entire hillside garden of several acres had vanished.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

side
vshillside
179 1.0

The sloping area of a hill or mountain

focuses specifically on sloping sides rather than any elevated area
slope
vshillside
101 1.4

A part of land that goes up or down like the side of a hill

refers more narrowly to sloping sides of smaller elevations rather than all slants
mountainside
vshillside
28 1.9

A side of a mountain that slopes down

applies to sloping sides of smaller elevations rather than large mountains
incline
vshillside
19 4.2

A sloping surface that connects different levels

is about natural sloping sides rather than constructed connecting surfaces
sidehill
vshillside
1 4.9

A sloping side of a hill

is the same meaning but uses a different word form
versant
vshillside
  • Specialized
9.9

A slope of a hill or mountain

is limited to sloping sides of lower elevation land rather than peaks
rising slope
vshillside
3.5

A slope that goes up

applies to sloping sides in any direction, not only upward ones

Antonyms

22 1.5

The top of a hill where you can see around

How Steep

cliff
438 1.0
steep
2 3.1
hillside
65 1.0
gentle
27 1.0
flat
21 1.3

Surface Forms

hillside singular
hillsides plural

Morphology

hillside = hill + side (transparent) = hill + side

Meaning is directly the combination of 'hill' + 'side' referring to the sloping flank of a hill.

Etymology

Hillside is simply the words hill and side joined together, so it literally means the 'side' of a 'hill'. That's why a hillside is the sloping ground you see going down from the top of a hill.