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 →

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 →
• Our house is built on a hillside. tree →
• We rolled down the grassy hillside. tree →
• The hillside was covered in yellow flowers. tree →
• Be careful, the hillside is steep and wet. tree →
• A white horse is carved into the chalk hillside. tree →
• Farmers grow grapes on the sunny hillside. tree →
• Trees help stop the hillside from washing away. tree →
• There was the town, on the hillside! tree →

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.
• The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus' great teaching on a hillside, found in Matthew chapters 5 to 7.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hillside» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.