noun
Meaning 1
The sloping side of a mountain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mountainside
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CMU ARPABET: M AW1 N T AH0 N S AY2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
the side or slope of a mountain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- conifer forests cover the eastern versant
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: versant
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: slope, incline, side
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English mountain Proto-Indo-European *seh1-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English mountainside From mountain + side.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: bokë — slope of mountain
- Albanian: sukë — slope of mountain
- Bulgarian: планински склон (planinski sklon) — slope of mountain
- Dutch: berghelling — slope of mountain
- Esperanto: montoflanko — slope of mountain
- Finnish: vuorenrinne — slope of mountain
- Galician: ladeira — slope of mountain
- German: Berghang — slope of mountain
- Hungarian: hegyoldal — slope of mountain
- Icelandic: hlíð — slope of mountain
- Irish: mala shléibhe — slope of mountain
- Navajo: dziłbąąh — slope of mountain
- Norwegian Bokmål: fjellside — slope of mountain
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fjellside — slope of mountain
- Spanish: ladera — slope of mountain