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hill·side

(hĭl′sīd′)

The side or slope of a hill, situated between the foot and the summit.

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hillside

(ˈhɪlˌsaɪd)

the side of a hill

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

hill•side

(ˈhɪlˌsaɪd)

n.

the side or slope of a hill.

[1350–1400]

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Noun

hillside - the side or slope of a hill

brae - a slope or hillside

hill - a local and well-defined elevation of the land; "they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia"

incline, slope, side - an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"

Translations

جانِب التَّلّه

úbočí

bakkeskråningskrænt

hlíî, brekka

dağ eteği

hillside

[ˈhɪlsaɪd] N → ladera f, falda f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hillside

[ˈhɪlsaɪd] n → coteau m
on the hillside → à flanc de coteau
I was staying in a house on the hillside above Lake Como → Je séjournais dans une maison à flanc de coteau, au-dessus du lac de Côme.hill start n (in vehicle) → démarrage m en côte
to do a hill start → faire un démarrage en côte

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hillside

[ˈhɪlˌsaɪd] n → pendio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

hill

(hil)

1. noun a piece of high land, smaller than a mountain. We went for a walk in the hills yesterday.

2. a slope on a road. This car has difficulty going up steep hills.

ˈhillock (-lək) noun

a small hill.

ˈhilly adjective

having many hills. hilly country.

ˈhillside noun

the side or slope of a hill. The hillside was covered with new housing.

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Salving his conscience with the idea that this was part of the inspection, he rode on to the clay-pit--a huge scar in a hillside. But he did not linger long, swinging off again to the left and leaving the road.

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A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog.

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And when no specks at all were found in several pans, he straightened up and favored the hillside with a confident glance.

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I gather the larkspur Over the hillside, Blown mid the chaos Of boulder and bellbine; Hating the tyrant Who made me an outcast, Who of his leisure Now spares me no moment: Drinking the mountain spring, Shading at noon-day Under the cypress My limbs from the sun glare.

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And when the roaring hillside broke, And all our world fell down in rain, We saved him, we the Little Folk; But lo!

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On the hillside grew dense bushes and small trees and among the bushes were little open spaces carpeted with long grass, now stiff and frozen.

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For a part of the distance between Auburn and Newcastle the road-- first on one side of a creek and then on the other--occupies the whole bottom of the ravine, being partly cut out of the steep hillside, and partly built up with bowlders removed from the creek- bed by the miners.

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We came at last to the foot of an exceeding steep wood, which scrambled up a craggy hillside, and was crowned by a naked precipice.

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George, I cannot say; but surely a dragon was killed there, for you may see the marks yet where his blood ran down, and more by token the place where it ran down is the easiest way up the hillside.

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The trouble was over in an amazingly short time, for from the judges' stand beside the track the announcer was bellowing the start of the boys' foot-race; and Bert, disappointed, joined Billy and the two girls on the hillside looking down upon the track.

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Just as we had finished talking about skeletons and were drifting into the subject of fossils, Harris and I heard a shout, and glanced up the steep hillside. We saw men and women standing away up there looking frightened, and there was a bulky object tumbling and floundering down the steep slope toward us.

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It was idle, however, to imagine that an airy guest from Monument Mountain, Bald Summit, and old Graylock, shaggy with primeval forests, could see anything to admire in my poor little hillside, with its growth of frail and insect-eaten locust trees.