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hill-station

hill-station is the alternative spelling of hill station.

Meaning of hill station

Noun

hill station (plural hill stations)

  1. (Myanmar, South-Asia, UK) In South and Southeast Asia, a small community located at a relatively high elevation which serves as a retreat or vacation location during the hot summers; historically, a village or military post so used by colonial officials.
    • The message flashed to the Hill stations. — “Cholera — Leave stopped — Officers recalled.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 144

Forms of hill-station

pluralhill-stations

Questions about hill-station

What is hill-station the alternative spelling of?
Hill-station is the alternative spelling of hill station.

Words near hill-station in the dictionary

  1. hill-people
  2. Hill-Robertson effect
  3. Hill-Robertson effects
  4. hill-side
  5. hill-sides
  6. hill-station
  7. hill-stations
  8. hill-topping
  9. hill-tribe
  10. hill-tribes
  11. hill-troll

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hill-station (page history and authors); hill station (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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