hillside - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

From hill +‎ side.

hillside (plural hillsides)

1. The side of a hill.
   • 2012, Qizhang Dong, “The Curse of Tai Ping Shan”, in Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City‎[1], 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.

side of a hill

• Armenian: լանջ (hy) (lanǰ)

• Bulgarian: склон (bg) m (sklon)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 半山腰 (zh) (bànshānyāo)

• Estonian: nõlv

• 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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