Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. (context chiefly British Pakistan and India English) In Southeast Asia, a small community located at a relatively high elevation which serves as a retreat or vacation location during the hot summers; historically, a village or military post so used by colonial officials. n. (context chiefly British Pakistan and India English) In Southeast Asia, a small community located at a relatively high elevation which serves as a retreat or vacation location during the hot summers; historically, a village or military post so used by colonial officials.
Wikipedia
A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The term was used mostly in colonial Asia, but also in Africa (albeit rarely), for towns founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler. In the Indian context most hill stations are at an altitude of approximately 1,000 to 2,500 metres (3,500 to 7,500 feet); very few are outside this range.
Usage examples of "hill station".
Brockwell Park - a huge, thrown-together isosceles of forest and grass with its apex at Herne Hill station -rambles for over a mile along the boundary of two very different parts of South London.
The answer is using powerful computers to filter as much intercepted information as possible at the front endthe point of interceptionsuch as at Menwith Hill Station, NSA's massive satellite listening post in central England.
He made his way west toward Tower Hill Station and stopped a little before the station, beside a large gray jut of wall.
Munnar is a small hill station surrounded by some of the highest tea estates in the world.