hill station


noun
  1. a village, post, or the like, especially in S Asia, at a high altitude where government officials and others can be stationed to escape the great heat of tropical summers.

Origin of hill station

1
First recorded in 1875–80

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How to use hill station in a sentence

  • Coorg is a hill station outside the major city of Bangalore in central-southern India.

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  • And, smiling, he waved his hand and parted from his friend in the booking office of Ludgate hill station.

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  • No one passes it without remarking that it is the best site for a hill-station in Northern India.

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  • And the heat crept up from its kingdom in the Plains below and laughed at our boasts of the coolness of our hill station.

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  • And certainly this latter is a better way for the youngster to spend his holiday than loafing about a hill station.

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  • Jack Darling having arrived at Muktiarbad while Mrs. Fox was at a hill station, their acquaintance was only in its initial stage.

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British Dictionary definitions for hill station

hill station

noun
  1. (in northern India) a settlement or resort at a high altitude

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