Slope
/sloʊp/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
nounThe degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
Sentence Examples
We skied down the slope.
Let's descend the slope.
The town is built on a slope.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The experienced skier carefully skied down the steep ____ of the mountain.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The steep ____ of the mountain made the hike quite challenging for the inexperienced group.
Word Origin & History
From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
""I did a slope," acknowledged the clerk frankly. "I broke all the records down that passage, I bet you. You'll laugh, I dare say, and think you would have stood, but you don't know what it was like. […]""
— 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:
"If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"St. Lawrence Station is very prettily situated, high cliffs on the left, and the lush vegetation of the Undercliff sloping down to the sea on the right."
— 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:
"She watched him disappear out of sight, before sloping back to her room."
— 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
"A bank not steep, but gently slope."
— 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The experienced skier carefully skied down the steep ____ of the mountain.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The steep ____ of the mountain made the hike quite challenging for the inexperienced group.