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hillside

US/ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,604 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: hillsides

A hillside is the sloping side of a hill. On the hillside, a wooded hillside, terraced hillsides.

It is the part between the top and the bottom, which is why villages and vineyards sit on hillsides rather than on hills. Terracing a hillside is the oldest way of farming steep ground without losing the soil.

Definitions of hillside

  1. 1nounhillsideThe sloping side of a hill.B1+

    “Sheep grazed on the steep hillside above the village.”

hillside is a slope.

Where it comes from

From hill + side.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

hillside in the wild

  • A hillside castle is a castle built on the side of a hill above much of the surrounding terrain but below the summit itself.

    Hillside castle

  • The advantage of a hillside castle was that its well was much less deep than that of a hilltop castle.

    Hillside castle

  • The town was named because it sits on a hillside by Date Creek.

    Hillside, Arizona

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.