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HILLSIDE
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I. (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:
Again I looked out: we were passing a church; I saw its low broad tower against the sky, and its bell was tolling a quarter; I saw a narrow galaxy of lights too, on a hillside, marking a village or hamlet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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