hilltopn.

The top or summit of a hill.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun] > summit

knollc888

knapc1000

copc1374

crest?a1400

head?a1425

summit1481

summitya1500

mountain topa1522

hilltop1530

stump1664

scalp1810

bald1838

van1871

dod1878

berg-top1953

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231/1 Hyll toppe, crespe or creste de montaigne.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxxi. 39 The hill toppe of Gareb.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 520 The amorous Bird of Night Sung Spousal, and bid haste the Eevning Starr On his Hill top, to light the bridal Lamp.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 222 'Tis perched upon the green hill top.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 467 The sun is still upon the hill-tops.

attributive.1893 Grant White in Westm. Gaz. 7 June 2/1 The healthy antique principle of hill-top habitation.1897 Daily News 3 June 5/6 The lighting of the hill-top bonfires.

Compounds

hill-top novel n. the name given by Grant Allen to those of his novels in which he expressed his views on moral and social questions, especially views not generally acceptable to his contemporaries.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel

political novel1735

comic novel1787

epistolary1804

autobiographical novel1832

Robinsonade1837

roman1867

sea-book1867

roman à clef1882

roman expérimental1884

hill-top novel1895

saga1895

Bildungsroman1910

pulp fiction1931

American Gothic1938

Künstlerroman1941

suspense novel1952

nouveau roman1959

sword and sorcery1961

graphic novel1964

non-fiction novel1965

schlockbuster1966

dark fantasy1968

celebrity novel1969

swashbuckler1975

chick lit1988

splatterpunk1988

Aga saga1992

1895 G. Allen British Barbarians p. xi I propose in future to add the words, ‘A Hill-top Novel’, to every one of my stories which I write of my own accord, simply and solely for the sake of embodying and enforcing my own opinions.

1895 G. Allen British Barbarians p. xvi Why, once more, this particular name, ‘A Hill-top Novel’? For something like this reason. I am writing in my study on a heather-clad hill-top... Everything around is fresh and pure... But away below in the valley, as night draws on, a lurid glare..marks the spot where the great wen of London heaves and festers.

1896 Pearson's Mag. May 556/1 Latterly he [sc. Grant Allen] has doubled up his social philosophy with his fiction, producing what he calls ‘Hill Top’ novels.

1901 Sketch XXV. 256/2 The lady sports~woman is the Colonel's abomination; he regards her as a monstrous product of the divided skirt and the ‘Hill~top’ novel.

hill-top surface n. (see quot. 1961).

ΘΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > relief > altitude > common altitude

platform1908

hill-top surface1930

1930 J. Challinor in Geography 15 656 The object of the foregoing remarks is therefore to suggest that a hill-top surface, having a ‘plateau quality’ about it, need not necessarily be evidence of an uplifted peneplane.

1961 J. Challinor Dict. Geol. 100/1 Hill-top surface, an imaginary surface, as smooth as possible, touching the tops of the hills of a region.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	hilltop
释义	hilltopn. The top or summit of a hill. ΘΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun] > summit knollc888 knapc1000 copc1374 crest?a1400 head?a1425 summit1481 summitya1500 mountain topa1522 hilltop1530 stump1664 scalp1810 bald1838 van1871 dod1878 berg-top1953 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231/1 Hyll toppe, crespe or creste de montaigne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxxi. 39 The hill toppe of Gareb. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 520 The amorous Bird of Night Sung Spousal, and bid haste the Eevning Starr On his Hill top, to light the bridal Lamp. View more context for this quotation 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 222 'Tis perched upon the green hill top. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 467 The sun is still upon the hill-tops. attributive.1893 Grant White in Westm. Gaz. 7 June 2/1 The healthy antique principle of hill-top habitation.1897 Daily News 3 June 5/6 The lighting of the hill-top bonfires. Compounds hill-top novel n. the name given by Grant Allen to those of his novels in which he expressed his views on moral and social questions, especially views not generally acceptable to his contemporaries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel political novel1735 comic novel1787 epistolary1804 autobiographical novel1832 Robinsonade1837 roman1867 sea-book1867 roman à clef1882 roman expérimental1884 hill-top novel1895 saga1895 Bildungsroman1910 pulp fiction1931 American Gothic1938 Künstlerroman1941 suspense novel1952 nouveau roman1959 sword and sorcery1961 graphic novel1964 non-fiction novel1965 schlockbuster1966 dark fantasy1968 celebrity novel1969 swashbuckler1975 chick lit1988 splatterpunk1988 Aga saga1992 1895 G. Allen British Barbarians p. xi I propose in future to add the words, ‘A Hill-top Novel’, to every one of my stories which I write of my own accord, simply and solely for the sake of embodying and enforcing my own opinions. 1895 G. Allen British Barbarians p. xvi Why, once more, this particular name, ‘A Hill-top Novel’? For something like this reason. I am writing in my study on a heather-clad hill-top... Everything around is fresh and pure... But away below in the valley, as night draws on, a lurid glare..marks the spot where the great wen of London heaves and festers. 1896 Pearson's Mag. May 556/1 Latterly he [sc. Grant Allen] has doubled up his social philosophy with his fiction, producing what he calls ‘Hill Top’ novels. 1901 Sketch XXV. 256/2 The lady sports~woman is the Colonel's abomination; he regards her as a monstrous product of the divided skirt and the ‘Hill~top’ novel. hill-top surface n. (see quot. 1961). ΘΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > relief > altitude > common altitude platform1908 hill-top surface1930 1930 J. Challinor in Geography 15 656 The object of the foregoing remarks is therefore to suggest that a hill-top surface, having a ‘plateau quality’ about it, need not necessarily be evidence of an uplifted peneplane. 1961 J. Challinor Dict. Geol. 100/1 Hill-top surface, an imaginary surface, as smooth as possible, touching the tops of the hills of a region. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1530
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