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Definition of Hilltop
1. Noun. The peak of a hill. "The sun set behind the brow of distant hills"
Definition of Hilltop
1. n. The top of a hill.
Definition of Hilltop
1. Noun. The peak or crest of a hill. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hilltop
1. the top of a hill [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hilltop
Literary usage of Hilltop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Celia Thaxter by Celia Thaxter (1895)
"We stopped our horse on the hilltop and watched them, darkening the sky ahove,
beyond us, fully ten minutes before they had all flown over. ..."
2. The Natural History of Some Common Animals: A Book of Animal Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1904)
"... had he stood on an open hilltop and watched the light spread magically over
a wide, wild landscape. Up to the morning of the previous day, ..."
3. Beyond the Marne: Quincy--Huiry--Voisins Before and During the Battle by Henriette Cuvru-Magot (1918)
"Riding in her cart behind her donkey, Ninette, Miss Aldrich is a familiar figure
in the country-side round about "La Creste," her "house on the hilltop. ..."
4. Literary Pilgrimages in New England to the Homes of Famous Makers of by Edwin Monroe Bacon (1902)
"—'I'ho poet's grave on the hilltop overlooking . familiar scones of his verse.
HAPPILY the Whittier house in Amesbury is preserved with the .same pious care ..."
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