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hill stations

hill stations is the plural 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

Questions about hill stations

What is hill stations the plural of?
Hill stations is the plural of hill station.

Words near hill stations in the dictionary

  1. Hill sphere
  2. Hill spheres
  3. hill start
  4. hill starts
  5. hill station
  6. hill stations
  7. Hill tetrahedra
  8. Hill tetrahedron
  9. hill to die on
  10. Hill Top
  11. hill town

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