Definition of hillside
: a part of a hill between the top and the foot
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Streams of rainwater rushed down the hillside.
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The hillsides around the brook are filled with foundations of all shapes and sizes.
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The house was perched on a steep hillside, and her garden was downslope and out of sight.
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At Fyli, the country's largest landfill on the outskirts of Athens, bulldozers constantly reshape mountains of garbage in a quarried hillside, squeezing out a dark liquid called leachate to leave enormous stacks of brown-coated plastic.
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At Fyli, the country's largest landfill on the outskirts of Athens, bulldozers constantly reshape mountains of garbage in a quarried hillside, squeezing out a dark liquid called leachate to leave enormous stacks of brown-coated plastic.
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Every inch of growing space is utilized; colorful clusters of plants cling to the hillsides and acres of small succulents grow under large shade houses in seemingly endless rows.
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Their burrows and tunnels can riddle the dry hillsides, sometimes hastening erosion of the fragile bluffs.
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The remains were on a hillside, partially mummified, the clothes removed.
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To make the alcoholic ingredient, elderflower is picked on the hillsides of the French Alps in a brief four-to-six-week period in the spring and summer, Huffington Post reports.
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First Known Use of hillside
14th century
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: the part of a hill between the top and the foot
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