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mountainside

[ moun-tn-sahyd ]

noun

  1. the side or slope of a mountain.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mountainside1

1300–50; Middle English. See mountain, side 1

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Example Sentences

It ran for more than a third of a mile, was deep enough to expose the mountainside, and threw a massive cloud of snow skyward.

That may be because you can go faster in shorter races, and intensity is a key cause of fatigue—particularly if you’re hammering down quad-busting mountainsides.

We had entered the Argentière basin across a low point in the ridgeline called the Col des Cristaux—which in English translates to Crystal Pass—before traversing laterally across the mountainside.

Oh, and there was a guy in a jet suit gliding up a mountainside.

As a young reporter, Jan Morris was on the mountainside, at 22,000 feet, when the first expedition in history reached the top of Mount Everest.

When Hanifa reached what seemed a safe place on the mountainside, she called her sisters.

Orange parka-clad instructors escorted Marines up and down the mountainside.

As superheated liquid rock and gas gushed down the mountainside, an estimated 12,000 local people perished within 24 hours.

Everyone ascends via the same route, clipping into ropes stitched up the mountainside—six miles of it—all the way to the top.

He had tunneled into the mountainside where he stored all this weaponry.

Against the mountainside there seemed to hang one bunch of flame like a star, large, red, and weird.

Dont you know they carry down the mountainside and into the city the finest water of the West Indies?

Mother and uncle rose from their seats and the whole group started down the mountainside.

They climbed out of the canyon and out onto the grassy slope of the mountainside.

The scrambling noise was still coming down the mountainside, growing louder and louder, but with no one breaking into view.

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