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Answer for the clue "The side or slope of a hill ", 8 letters:
hillside

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hillside was a junction and station on the Long Island Rail Road 's Main Line and Montauk Branch in Hillside, Queens , New York City , United States . It was located east of where the Montauk Branch now crosses over the two eastbound passenger tracks and ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The side of a hill.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hillside \Hill"side`\, n. The side or declivity of a hill.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 8155 Housing Units (2000): 3107 Land area (2000): 2.147525 sq. miles (5.562063 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.147525 sq. miles (5.562063 sq. km) FIPS code: 35086 Located within: Illinois ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from hill + side (n.).

Usage examples of hillside.

Max turned onto Bigelow Boulevard, and they swept along the hillside, looking down at the Strip District and the Allegheny River beyond.

The town was already jammed with immigrants, and people were starting to build on hillside areas that Anse himself thought were questionable at best.

Queen of Night, the Ansus mounted charge after charge up the stake-studded hillside at a dreadful cost.

They were fast, precise, got the job done and in a few hundred seconds we were back in control of the hillside.

They stood on a hillside while four young pigs, combed and tied with ribbons by special barbers, were bound into beflagged carts.

While the remaining Minids hooted at these inept brachiators, I went to Helen, lifted her to her feet, and led her back down the hillside to our tent.

There was dry bunchgrass, prairie and a set of lonesome railroad tracks leading across it to disappear between two fingers of loose rock, the hillsides studded with dark green cedar and, here and there, a little scrub oak and low, spreading juniper.

A rocky head like Gibraltar, a cold-bloodedlooking grey town, straggling up a steep hillside, a few coniferae, a great many grey junks, a few steamers and vessels of foreign rig at anchor, a number of sampans riding the rough water easily, seen in flashes between gusts of rain and spin-drift, were all I saw, but somehow it all pleased me from its breezy, northern look.

We took the short-cut path along the hillside to the back gate of the Cordova house, and there were no more twinges of memory to trouble me.

They took three-year-old Crania with them and tramped the nearby hillsides to find wild herbs or dig roots.

Several cycles came and went as he labored down the hillside, but he had not worried.

For the men it was an opportunity to get the dogs out of their crates and exercise them in adjacent wooded areas and valleys, on hillsides, or sometimes just up and down the tracks.

I try not to think of the vision I had as we stood on the cold hillside beneath Castle Dracula, but it will not let me alone.

They drilled apart three days, and came together on the fourth, to practice larger group movement outside the forest, on a grassy hillside.

Not that we have anything against Elmira, though possibly its embattled reformatory, frowning from the hillside, contributed its gloomy associations to our spirits.