HILLSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hillside mean? 

• HILLSIDE (noun)
  The noun HILLSIDE has 1 sense:

1. the side or slope of a hill

  Familiarity information: HILLSIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HILLSIDE (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)

 Context examples 

For some time, amidst the immense hillside of faces which banked themselves up on the slope behind us, I was unable to pick out the exact point at which his gaze was directed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A long, sloping hillside, dotted with grey limestone boulders, stretched behind us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the thicket-covered hillside came a crashing of underbrush, and then, forty feet above them, on the edge of the sheer wall of rock, appeared a wolf's head and shoulders.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A chorus of boisterous laughter came from the other rocks, and Dorothy saw hundreds of the armless Hammer-Heads upon the hillside, one behind every rock.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I shall gather manna for her morning and night: the plains and hillsides in the moon are bleached with manna, Adele.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had thought it to be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning his crew to the assault, but I now found that it was a signal from the hillside towards the hamlet, and from its effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn them of approaching danger.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Researchers had thought flat terrain was a prerequisite because the water table - the distance below ground where the soil becomes saturated with water - must be shallow, and that's rare on a hillside.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

In and out amongst these green hills of what they call here the Mittel Land ran the road, losing itself as it swept round the grassy curve, or was shut out by the straggling ends of pine woods, which here and there ran down the hillsides like tongues of flame.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Whilst the council was sitting in Pampeluna the White Company, having encamped in a neighboring valley, close to the companies of La Nuit and of Black Ortingo, were amusing themselves with sword-play, wrestling, and shooting at the shields, which they had placed upon the hillside to serve them as butts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)