hilltop

[ hil-top ]

noun

1. the top or summit of a hill.

verb (used without object)

, hill·topped, hill·top·ping.

1. Fox Hunting.
   1. to follow the progress of a hunt on horseback but without jumping.
   2. to follow the hunt on foot or in an automobile.

Other Words From

• hilltopper noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hilltop¹

1375–1425; late Middle English. See hill, top ¹

Example Sentences

The cable car to the hilltop area of Monte is conveniently adjacent, and we floated above mountains thickly covered with trees, spotting waterfalls and hikers on trails below, to another garden site.

From Washington Post

With freestanding turbines, you typically want a large open space like a field, large yard, or hilltop position.

From Popular-Science

Situated on the Tennessee–North Carolina border, Newfound Gap offers one of the most quintessential views of the Smokies, extending for dozens of miles over the wooded hilltops.

From Outside Online

In her story, Elmer takes us to the hilltop homes of Ocean View Hills and then to the southern San Diego neighborhood of Nestor, where the poverty rate is twice as high.

From Voice of San Diego

A wartime approachBut across Lisbon, in a windy hilltop military facility, Portugal’s much-admired vaccine czar was worried about something else entirely.

From Washington Post

A historic hilltop village in Sicily is selling homes for $1.25 each in exchange for long-term investment and restoration.

From The Daily Beast

The Likud's hilltop youth, headed by (MK) Yariv Levin, are leading Israel into the murky waters of a totalitarian state.

From The Daily Beast

On a visit to China three years ago, I was taken to a hilltop park in a small city in Guangdong province.

From The Daily Beast

They were two of the three "Hilltop schools", green leafy campuses in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx.

From The Daily Beast

This winter, the activists had set up the first such encampment on an adjacent hilltop.

From The Daily Beast

Each tiny tree was a plume of leaves; the rows stretched out to the hilltop, and over.

From Project Gutenberg

Laura and Jess Morse were on the hilltop, looking out upon the white track over which the sleighs were flying.

From Project Gutenberg

I called an escort and we galloped five miles to a hilltop overlooking the sea.

From Project Gutenberg

The vast castle loomed black upon the hilltop, not a spark visible about it.

From Project Gutenberg

The scene represents a forest of heavy trees on a hilltop in eastern Pennsylvania.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bluff
• cliff
• dune
• highland
• hillside
• ridge
• slope