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English
Etymology
From hill + side.
Noun
hillside (plural hillsides)
- The side of a hill.
2012, Qizhang Dong, “The Curse of Tai Ping Shan”, in Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.
Translations
side of a hill
- Armenian: լանջ (hy) (lanǰ)
- Bulgarian: склон (bg) m (sklon)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 半山腰 (zh) (bànshānyāo)
- Estonian: nõlv
- Esperanto: montetflanko
- Finnish: rinne (fi)
- French: flanc de coteau m, coteau (fr) m
- Galician: aba (gl) f, ladeira f
- German: Bergabhang (de) m
- Greek: πλαγιά (el) (plagiá)
- Hungarian: domboldal (hu)
- Ingrian: penger, paltti, veeru, rinta, kallas, palle
- Irish: leitir f
- Kabuverdianu: ladera
- Macedonian: па́дина f (pádina)
- Maori: puketai, harapaki
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: åsside m or f
- Nynorsk: åsside f
- Polish: stok (pl), zbocze (pl)
- Portuguese: encosta (pt) f, ladeira (pt) f
- Scottish Gaelic: leathad m, aodann m
- Spanish: falda (es) f
- Swedish: sluttning (sv) c, backe (sv) c, slänt (sv) c
- Welsh: rhiw f
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