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# hillside

«hillside» in Mova's school dictionary: **The sloping side of a hill** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hillside, hillsides)

### meaning for a pupil

The sloping side of a hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and stories it tells where something is: sheep on the hillside, houses on the hillside, a path up the hillside. In safety talk: a steep hillside can be slippery, and in heavy rain mud can slide down it.

### examples

- Sheep were grazing on the hillside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x1)
- Our house is built on a hillside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x2)
- We rolled down the grassy hillside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x3)
- The hillside was covered in yellow flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x4)
- Be careful, the hillside is steep and wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x5)
- A white horse is carved into the chalk hillside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x6)
- Farmers grow grapes on the sunny hillside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x7)
- Trees help stop the hillside from washing away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x8)
- There was the town, on the hillside! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/#x9)

### note

Countable. One word, not «hill side». Usually «on the hillside». Similar: slope, mountainside.

### In the corpora

- [Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round the flock, and three hundred sheep move as one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/3/)
- [The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus' great teaching on a hillside, found in Matthew chapters 5 to 7.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hillside» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hillside/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.