hill station
hill station noun: 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.
Noun
hill station (plural hill stations)
- 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
- In 1854, General Barter, C.B., was a subaltern in the 75th Regiment, and was doing duty at the hill station of Murree in the Punjaub.1897, Andrew Lang, chapter 4, in The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
hill station meaning in Tamil and Kannada
hill station in Tamil
- மலை ஊர், மலை வாழிடம், மலைவாழிடம், மலை உறைதலம், மலை நகர், மலைத்தலம்
hill station in Kannada
- ಗಿರಿಧಾಮ
Examples of hill station in a sentence
- At 6.25 a.m. today Mr Nehru, who had gone to sleep last night "fresh and fit" after his short holiday at a hill station, had a stroke.1964 May 28, Victor Anant, “Indians' anxious look at the era after Nehru”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 10 Jun 2009:
- For builder Rakesh Prajapati, the ideal weekend is trekking up the wild path to reach hill station Matheran.2006 October 15, Vijay Singh, “From Navi Mumbai, chilling is a drive away”, in Times of India, retrieved 10 Jun 2009:
Forms of hill station
| plural | hill stations |
|---|---|
| alternative form | hill-station |
Questions about hill station
- What does hill station mean?
- Hill station means 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.
- What is hill station in Tamil?
- Hill station in Tamil is மலை ஊர், மலை வாழிடம், மலைவாழிடம். See Hill station meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use hill station in a sentence?
- At 6.25 a.m. today Mr Nehru, who had gone to sleep last night "fresh and fit" after his short holiday at a hill station, had a stroke.
- What part of speech is hill station?
- Hill station is a noun.
- What is the plural of hill station?
- The plural of hill station is hill stations.
Words near hill station in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hill station (page history and authors); hill station (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hill station (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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