Hillside
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hillside is a noun meaning The side of a hill.
Meaning
The side of a hill.
Example Sentences
Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.
Snowsheds and snow fences protect the line on either side of Semskfjell, but the country soon begins to lose some of its bleakness, and the tree line is regained at Lønsdal (1,680 ft. above sea-level), where the line is high on a hillside, commanding widespread views of the mountains.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Word Forms
- hillsides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hilltop, hill, colline, cliff, mountain, terrain.
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