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hillside en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/ (General-American)

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. The side of a hill.
   • When, lo! along the tall Rocky hill-side, a smoke ascends in clouds Like snow-flakes, soaring from the summit up Into the sky. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 87:
   • 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 14, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 575:
   • The fire is on a hillside west of the freeway about 70 miles north of Los Angeles. 2026 August 5, Jonathan Lloyd, “Evacuation warning issued due to brush fire near Lebec”, in NBC Los Angeles, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2026:
   • 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 29 Aug 2013:

Forms

Translations (38)

izh rinta (side of a hill) · sv slänt (side of a hill) · pl stok (side of a hill) · gd aodann (side of a hill) · fi rinne (side of a hill) · et nõlv (side of a hill) · pt encosta (side of a hill) · izh kallas (side of a hill) · gl ladeira (side of a hill) · izh paltti (side of a hill) · fr flanc de coteau (side of a hill) · el πλαγιά (side of a hill) · kea ladera (side of a hill) · nn åsside (side of a hill) · gl aba (side of a hill) · izh veeru (side of a hill) · pl zbocze (side of a hill) · hu domboldal (side of a hill) · cmn 半山腰 (side of a hill) · pt ladeira (side of a hill) · nb åsside (side of a hill) · ga leitir (side of a hill) · mk па́дина (side of a hill) · izh palle (side of a hill) · svs barata (side of a hill) · mi puketai (side of a hill) · sv sluttning (side of a hill) · eo montetflanko (side of a hill) · mi harapaki (side of a hill) · hy լանջ (side of a hill) · es falda (side of a hill) · de Bergabhang (side of a hill) · izh penger (side of a hill) · sv backe (side of a hill) · gd leathad (side of a hill) · bg склон (side of a hill) · cy rhiw (side of a hill) · fr coteau (side of a hill)