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foothill

foothill noun: a hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.

Noun

foothill (plural foothills)

  1. A hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.
    • The summit of the climb came 38km from the end of stage 14, which began in Limoux and ended in Foix in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the incident occurred as the peloton emerged into the light and passed under the banner at the top, a quarter of an hour behind a five-man breakaway.2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...

foothill meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Gujarati

foothill in Hindi

hill at the base of a mountain
तलहटी talahṭī

foothill in Tamil

மலையின் அடிவாரத்தில் உள்ள சிறுமலை, குன்று, அடிமலை

foothill in Kannada

ತಪ್ಪಲಗುಡ್ಡ

foothill in Gujarati

foothill
તળેટી taḷeṭī
More languagesFewer languages
foothill in Tagalog
paambundok
foothill in Arabic
سَفْح safḥ

Examples of foothill in a sentence

  • Two 4-4-0s were steaming through the scenic foothills, giving rides to tourists.
  • This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.
  • From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.

All 33 example sentences with foothill

Forms of foothill

pluralfoothills

Plural of foothill: foothills

Origin of foothill

From foot + hill.

Words formed from foothill

Phrases with foothill

Questions about foothill

What does foothill mean?
Foothill means a hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.
What is foothill in Hindi?
Foothill in Hindi is तलहटी (talahṭī). See Foothill meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is foothill?
Foothill is a noun.
What is the plural of foothill?
The plural of foothill is foothills.

Words near foothill in the dictionary

  1. footgun
  2. footgunned
  3. footgunning
  4. footguns
  5. foothalt
  6. foothill
  7. Foothill Farms
  8. foothill pine
  9. foothill pines
  10. foothill yucca
  11. foothilled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: foothill (page history and authors); foothill (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); foothill (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); તળેટી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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