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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hillside
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
steep
▪ The upper part of the village of Whittington lies on the south-east slope of a steep hillside.
▪ They can be installed on steep hillsides.
▪ Thorn said that midsummer sunset was observed from a small platform on a steep hillside overlooking the stone.
▪ The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses.
▪ Soon the path led him down a very steep hillside.
▪ A similar system was also used in the West Country on steep hillsides from the seventeenth century onwards.
▪ An outcrop of white rock from the steep hillside seemed to the children as tall as a cliff.
■ VERB
build
▪ Read in studio Aviation enthusiasts are calling for a memorial to be built on a hillside where a wartime pilot crashed.
▪ I ask about the strange cement houses built into the hillsides.
▪ Broughton said the codes would make it simpler to build on small hillside vacant lots in older developed neighborhoods.
▪ But he said they would tighten restrictions for building on coastal hillsides.
set
▪ She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house.
▪ Many of the chalets are set on a hillside reached by steps - not ideal for the infirm or very young children.
▪ Above the solitary institute, with its picture postcard setting, the hillside prayer flags flutter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her house was built on a hillside overlooking the ocean.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Continue on a clear path up the hillside to reach a stile on the ridge.
▪ Control over the distribution of cocaine has been settled in the hillside slum communities.
▪ Faint news of the whistle from the nearby paper mill broadcast from the hillsides.
▪ He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside.
▪ The hillsides are still gray from the bare twigs.
▪ The harsh logic of survival ruled out such fancies, and not a voice was raised in protest from the listening hillside.
▪ The high hillside was hollowed out a long, long time ago, in order to create an amphitheater facing the sea.
▪ The upper part of the village of Whittington lies on the south-east slope of a steep hillside.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hillside

Hillside \Hill"side`\, n. The side or declivity of a hill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hillside

late 14c., from hill + side (n.).

Wiktionary
hillside

n. The side of a hill.

WordNet
hillside

n. the side or slope of a hill

Gazetteer
Hillside, NJ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Jersey
Population (2000): 21747
Housing Units (2000): 7388
Land area (2000): 2.790366 sq. miles (7.227014 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.790366 sq. miles (7.227014 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32010
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.695552 N, 74.228561 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07205
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Hillside, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 882
Housing Units (2000): 344
Land area (2000): 0.840934 sq. miles (2.178008 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.840934 sq. miles (2.178008 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34786
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.921923 N, 74.033217 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Hillside, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
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 (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.874797 N, 87.900372 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60162 60163
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Hillside

Hillside may refer to:

  • the side of a hill
Hillside (LIRR station)

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 the two freight tracks of the Main Line, just west of the Hillside Facility.

Hillside (Charles Town, West Virginia)

Hillside, also known as Little Elmington, is a 1½ story brick house near Charles Town, West Virginia dating to circa 1798–1800. The house possesses a striking two-story gallery supported by five large round columns. The property includes a rubblestone barn and spring house. The house's name refers to its construction into the natural hillside in a manner similar to that of a bank barn, with the principal entry on the upper, uphill level.

Hillside (Plymouth, Massachusetts)

Hillside is a historic house at 230 Summer Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in 1845, and has Gothic Revival styling. It was the site at which Benjamin Watson established one of the nation's first garden nurseries, the "Old Colony Gardens". It is also where Ralph Waldo Emerson stayed the night before his wedding with Plymouth native Lydia Jackson.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Hillside (TV series)

Hillside (known as Fifteen in the United States) is a Canadian-American teen drama that aired on YTV in Canada from 1991 to 1993. Created and produced by John T. Binkley, the series was Nickelodeon's only teenage soap opera. The show was shot on videotape, similar to most daytime dramas.

The series was first conceived as Fifteen in an improvised form for The Disney Channel, where a 13-episode pilot series was produced and tested in the U.S. After Disney decided not to proceed with the project, Nickelodeon and Canadian partners joined Binkley in producing the series which was known in its first and second seasons as Hillside in Canada, and throughout the 65-episode run as Fifteen in the U.S. The show was subsequently syndicated around the world, with runs in Germany and Israel, among others.

The series features a large ensemble cast which underwent several changes over the show's four-season run. Notable cast members include Laura Harris, Enuka Okuma, and Ryan Reynolds.

Hillside (Davenport, Iowa)

Hillside, also known as the Charles Schuler House, is a mansion overlooking the Mississippi River on the eastside of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982 and the Davenport Register of Historic Properties since 1992. It is also a contributing property in the Prospect Park Historic District.

Hillside (Norfolk, Connecticut)

Hillside is a historic house on Litchfield Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. The house was built for an heiress of the Remington Arms business fortune, and is sited on a steeply-pitched hillside with expansive views to the north. It is a large Tudor Revival structure, with its basement and first floor built of fieldstone, and the upper level of half-timber and stucco. A central section is flanked by larger wing sections, each topped by a roof that has a gable section above a Craftsman-style jerkin-headed gable end. It was designed by architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor and is one of his more "spectacular" houses.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Hillside (Carlisle, South Carolina)

Hillside is a historic home located near Carlisle, Union County, South Carolina. It was built between 1820 and 1830, and is a two-story, “L-shaped” Federal style clapboard structure. It features a central double piazza with slender Tuscan order wooden columns. It was enlarged about 1850. Also on the property are tall granite gate posts with folk art relief sculpture. The posts are believed to have been carved about 1861 by J. E. Sherman, a Union soldier who became ill and was left at Hillside to recuperate prior to the American Civil War. Also on the property are a hand-hewn barn, a well with modern well-house, and another small 19th century structure.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Hillside (Greensboro, North Carolina)

Hillside, also known as the Julian Price House, is a historic mansion located in the Fisher Park neighborhood of Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was designed by noted architect Charles C. Hartmann and built in 1929 for the businessman Julian Price. The house, a four story, 31-room, 180 foot long dwelling in the Tudor Revival style, sits at 7,266 square-feet. It has a three-story polygonal stair tower, red-brown rough fired brick, and half-timbering with tan stucco. Also on the property is a contributing rustic board-and-batten gardener's cottage.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Fisher Park Historic District.

Hillside (Rottingdean, Brighton and Hove)

Hillside is an 18th-century Grade II* listed building in Rottingdean, in the city of Brighton and Hove. The house contains a gazebo listed for its special architectural or historic interest, and also contains a Grade II listed barn.

Hillside (Natchez, Mississippi)

Hillside is a historic house in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. It was built in the 1850s for Mrs. Jeremiah Cory, her daughter and her son-in-law, W. G. Foules. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 15, 1987.

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.