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foothill

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: F UH1 T HH IH2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hill

History

Etymology

From foot + hill.

Across languages

Translations

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سَفْح (safḥ) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Bulgarian: подножие (podnožie) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Chinese Mandarin: 山麓 (shānlù) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Chinese Mandarin: 山腳 /山脚 (shānjiǎo) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Czech: podhůří — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Finnish: aluskukkula — hill at the base of a mountain
  • French: contrefort — hill at the base of a mountain
  • French: piémont — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Galician: pé — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Galician: aba — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Georgian: მთისწინეთი (mtisc̣ineti) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • German: Vorberg — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Ancient Greek: σφυρόν (sphurón) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Hindi: तलहटी (talahṭī) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Japanese: 前山 (zenzan) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Japanese: 山裾 (yamasuso) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Macedonian: по́дножје (pódnožje) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Macedonian: пре́дгорје (prédgorje) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Russian: предго́рье (predgórʹje) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Russian: подно́жие (podnóžije) — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Serbo-Croatian: predbrđe — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Spanish: piedemonte — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Spanish: faldeo — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Tagalog: paambundok — hill at the base of a mountain
  • Walloon: pîmont — hill at the base of a mountain