Hillside Meaning
/ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe side of a hill.
nameA place in England:, A hamlet in Luppitt parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1705).
Sentence Examples
The building which stands on the hillside is our school.
The rock rolled down the hillside.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The house was built on a steep ____ overlooking the ocean.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A small flock of sheep was grazing on the steep ____ overlooking the quiet village.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English hill Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English hillside From hill + side.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1957 August 26, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 575:
"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."
— 2012, Qizhang Dong, “The Curse of Tai Ping Shan”, in Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:
"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."
— 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The house was built on a steep ____ overlooking the ocean.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A small flock of sheep was grazing on the steep ____ overlooking the quiet village.