Library / English Dictionary

HILLSIDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The side or slope of a hill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("hillside" is a kind of...):

incline; side; slope (an elevated geological formation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hillside"):

brae (a slope or hillside)

Holonyms ("hillside" is a part of...):

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

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 Context examples: 

Again I looked out: we were passing a church; I saw its low broad tower against the sky, and its bell was tolling a quarter; I saw a narrow galaxy of lights too, on a hillside, marking a village or hamlet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)