hillside
noun
the side or slope of a hill.
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hillside
1 American
[hil-sahyd]
/ ˈhɪlˌsaɪd /
noun
hillsides
plural
Hillside
2
American
[hil-sahyd]
/ ˈhɪlˌsaɪd /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hillside
1350–1400; Middle English; Old English hyll sīde
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Two people involved in the firefighting operation walk across a scorched, smoking hillside at Ryvoan, Abernethy, on 19 July.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
McCook said people had been doing 24-hour days on the hillside, and people had come from across the country to help, which he said showed the "resilience of the Highlands."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The house is on a hillside, and I have high ceilings and plenty of wall space for my art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
As brightly coloured kites climb above Burin, a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, children race across a sun-baked hillside, watching their creations soar into the sky.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
The path is still wild, and it’d be easy—too easy—for someone to slip, spin, fall down the hillside.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
He said the tunnels "go in parallel to one another under the houses of the Brackla Hillside, the housing estate".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
A 2024 dormitory fire at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county killed 21 boys, prompting government promises of nationwide school safety audits and prosecutions, though it remains unclear whether the measures were implemented.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
The professional circuit has arrived in the UK for two weeks of the links golf Kenyon was brought up on at Hillside Golf Club in Southport.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
“It was Babe Ruth’s apartment,” said Dunne, who grew up less than an hour away in Hillside, N.J.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025
I blasted through, and there was the Hillside linebacker.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
Just as they did in Beethoven's time, euphoric revellers still spill out onto the paths of the otherwise sleepy outskirts in the vine-lined Viennese hillsides after a few carafes of white- or red-wine spritzers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
The rising sun bathes the rolling Herefordshire hillsides in a warm glow as birds gently chirp and sheep graze in the fields.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The grasslands and hillsides act as a vast, uncluttered canvas for their colors, which typically bloom in March and last through April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
They ejected over 100-foot trees and on muddy hillsides with 45-degree slopes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Riverbanks, hillsides, the cool sloped rooms under the pine trees—China provides her soldiers with meeting places enough.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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