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hillside

US/ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/

hillside noun: the side of a hill.

Noun

hillside (plural hillsides)

  1. The side of a hill.
    • When, lo! along the tall
      Rocky hill-side, a smoke ascends in clouds
      Like snow-flakes, soaring from the summit up
      Into the sky.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 87
    • Snowsheds and snow fences protect the line on either side of Semskfjell, but the country soon begins to lose some of its bleakness, and the tree line is regained at Lønsdal (1,680 ft. above sea-level), where the line is high on a hillside, commanding widespread views of the mountains.1957 August, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 575

Proper noun capitalized: Hillside

Hillside

  1. A hamlet in Luppitt parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1705).
  2. A suburb of South Brent, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX7060).
  3. A hamlet in Odiham parish, Hart district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7550)
  4. A suburb of Southport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SD3214).
  5. A hamlet in Ditton Priors parish, south Shropshire (OS grid ref SO5987).
  6. A neighbourhood of Axbridge, Somerset, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST4354).
  7. A hamlet in Leigh parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0692).
  8. A northern suburb of Portlethen, Aberdeenshire council area (OS grid ref NO9297).
  9. A village north of Montrose, Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO7061).
  10. A locality on the isle of Burray, Orkney Islands council area (OS grid ref ND4696).
  11. A locality on Mainland, Orkney Islands council area (OS grid ref HY3124).
  12. A small settlement near Voe, Mainland, Shetland Islands council area (OS grid ref HU4063).
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  1. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
  2. An area of Glenorie, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Melton and the City of Brimbank, Victoria, Australia
  4. A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
  5. An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Colorado.
  6. A village in Cook County, Illinois.
  7. An area of Indianapolis, Indiana.
  8. A township in Union County, New Jersey.
  9. A census-designated place in Ulster County, New York.
  10. A neighbourhood in north-west Portland, Oregon.
  11. An unincorporated community in Dane County, Wisconsin.
  12. A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.

hillside meaning in Tamil and Urdu

hillside in Tamil

அகலறை, அடுக்கம்

hillside in Urdu

پہاڑی کا ڈھلوان

Examples of hillside in a sentence

  • Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.2012, Qizhang Dong, “The Curse of Tai Ping Shan”, in Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN...
  • As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2013:
  • The fire is on a hillside west of the freeway about 70 miles north of Los Angeles.2026 August 5, Jonathan Lloyd, “Evacuation warning issued due to brush fire near Lebec”, in NBC Los Angeles, archived from the original on...

All 40 example sentences with hillside

Forms of hillside

pluralhillsides

Plural of hillside: hillsides

Origin of hillside

From hill + side.

Questions about hillside

What does hillside mean?
Hillside means the side of a hill.
What is hillside in Tamil?
Hillside in Tamil is அகலறை, அடுக்கம். See Hillside meaning in Tamil.
How do you use hillside in a sentence?
Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.
What part of speech is hillside?
Hillside can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hillside?
Hillside is pronounced /ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/ (US).
What is the plural of hillside?
The plural of hillside is hillsides.

Words near hillside in the dictionary

  1. Hillses
  2. hillshade
  3. hillshaded
  4. hillshades
  5. hillshading
  6. hillside
  7. hillsides
  8. hillslope
  9. hillslopes
  10. hillsman
  11. Hillsmans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hillside (page history and authors); Hillside (page history and authors); hillside (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hillside (Urdu 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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