mountainside
[moun-tn-sahyd]
- the side or slope of a mountain.
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Origin of mountainside
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Examples from the Web for mountainside
Contemporary Examples
When Hanifa reached what seemed a safe place on the mountainside, she called her sisters.
Hanifa's Story: Her Five Sisters Taken by ISIS to Be Sold or WorseChristine van den Toorn
August 19, 2014
Orange parka-clad instructors escorted Marines up and down the mountainside.
As superheated liquid rock and gas gushed down the mountainside, an estimated 12,000 local people perished within 24 hours.
Everyone ascends via the same route, clipping into ropes stitched up the mountainside—six miles of it—all the way to the top.
He had tunneled into the mountainside where he stored all this weaponry.
Historical Examples
But one day there came to the mountainside the largest giant Wotan had ever seen.
Opera Stories from WagnerFlorence Akin
From a spur on the mountainside Rawson could see the full length of the island.
Two Thousand Miles BelowCharles Willard Diffin
But that screech of his was re-echoed from the mountainside above.
Better than spending it to knock a white walnut along a mountainside!
The Worlds of IfStanley Grauman Weinbaum
For all we know they may lead to some house or hut on the mountainside.
The Rover Boys on the FarmArthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)