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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mountainside
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some of the farms are on remote mountainsides.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A grotto had been hollowed out of the mountainside, with a beautiful figure of Mary.
▪ A plain stone cabin, on a mountainside.
▪ Beyond the back door was a view of mountainsides in the moonlight.
▪ BIn the far distance, the flames licked their way toward the beach like lava coming down the mountainsides.
▪ Jane contemplated throwing on her clothes and leaving her refuge to climb farther up the mountainside to the caves.
▪ Round the bend ahead the road ran fairly straight, a narrow ledge cut out of the mountainside.
▪ Then, as the years rolled by, more bikes rolled off the edge or into the mountainside.
▪ Wheatfields, cultivated high up the mountainsides, were lightly tinged with yellow, proclaiming the nearness of summer.
Wiktionary
mountainside

n. The slope side of a mountain.

WordNet
mountainside

n. the side or slope of a mountain; "conifer forests cover the eastern versant" [syn: versant]

Gazetteer
Mountainside, NJ -- U.S. borough in New Jersey
Population (2000): 6602
Housing Units (2000): 2478
Land area (2000): 4.023762 sq. miles (10.421494 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033289 sq. miles (0.086219 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.057051 sq. miles (10.507713 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48510
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.680301 N, 74.356011 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07092
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mountainside, NJ
Mountainside
Wikipedia
Mountainside

Mountainside may refer to:

  • the side of a mountain
  • Mountainside, New Jersey, a borough
  • Mountainside, a community in the city of Burlington, Ontario, Canada
  • Mountainside Hospital, Glen Ridge, New Jersey
  • Mountainside Lutheran Church, Auckland, New Zealand

Usage examples of "mountainside".

But then no doubt the little midshipman had never imagined himself on an Abyssinian mountainside, with his rockets.

Every spring she watched the bees flit back and forth between her tame orchard and the wild, seductive crab apples on the mountainsides.

Between here and there, this mountainside and that one, came the valley of the Blackbury, where the people lived, where she lived herself, with Boney and Sam.

It was the point of triage for all manner of illnesses that rolled down the mountainside to their doorstep: broken bones, pulmonary and cerebral edema, frostbite, heart conditions, dysentery, snow blindness, and all sorts of infections, including STDs.

Wild rosebushes and kinnikinnick were like splashes of fire against the mountainsides.

True to their code, the Menehunes turned them into twin pillars of stone, at the spot where they stood, on the mountainside above the pool.

When the clouds dispersed, views were to be had northwestward, down the tangled mountainsides, into terrifying gorges where vultures soared.

She, of course, had never come into oestrus, not once in her long life since she had woken from her strange, half-forgotten Sleep on that remote mountainside.

Billowing dust and ash raced over the grounds and rolled down the mountainside like a hyperactive pyroclastic cloud.

Only at intervals between the flanks, at lakeside, were there small patches of land sloping down to the water, and there were a few shelflike meadows visible on some of the mountainsides.

Except for the time he had wedged her into the rocks lest the snowslide hurl her down the mountainside, he had never touched her before.

A young snowslide came down the mountainside, and we almost went on with it.

Each time, taking it in rums, they swam away from the nef and surveyed the mountainside, but each time the sonar told them that ooze lay thick over the rock, and over any more remains that might be in the area.

Basrakan cried to the throngs of turbanned men jammed shoulder to shoulder on the mountainsides about the amphitheater.

With the snow on the ground, it was easy to see that the packers and the archaeologists had headed down the Mountainside, probably less than two hours earlier.