mountainside
noun
the side or slope of a mountain.
mountainsides
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pluralof mountainside.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Danger lurked in the shady groves of avocado trees that stretched on the mountainsides as far as the eye could see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
"The logic is that with a warming planet, you will see shrinking glaciers, lots of snow melt. The permafrost that is partially holding some mountainsides together is warming and thawing and degrading."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Coastal Malibu, with its longtime residents and singular environmental challenges of managing construction along narrow beaches and steep mountainsides, has had the hardest time moving forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
Wari techniques had reclaimed more than a million acres of cropland from mountainsides that almost anywhere else would have been regarded as impossibly dry, steep, and cold.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
