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Definition of "mountainside" []

  • The side of a mountain. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "mountainside" in a sentence
  • "I love the story of Elijah, and when they're surrounded by the army and someone says to him, "We're surrounded, we're never going to escape," he asked God to open his eyes, and he sees the whole mountainside is filled with chariots of fire."
  • "On Friday evenings the husbands, Simon among them, made their way up the mountainside from the train station by means of the one ancient village taxi, or else they trudged with their suitcases and their city bundles along the mile of dusty stone-strewn road, between high weedy growths, uphill to the colonies of cottages."
  • "Unless that mountainside is going to be developed or something, there's not"