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Synonyms for slopes

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : slohp
Phonetic Transcription : sloÊŠp

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Définition of slopes

Origin :
  • 1590s, "go in an oblique direction," from earlier adjective meaning "slanting" (c.1500), probably from Middle English aslope (adv.) "on the incline" (late 15c.), from Old English *aslopen, past participle of aslupan "to slip away," from a- "away" + slupan "to slip" (see sleeve). From 1709 as "to be in a slanting position;" transitive sense "place in a slanting position" is from c.1600. Related: Sloped; sloping.
  • noun slant, tilt
  • verb slant, tilt
Example sentences :
  • But the slopes were not over-steep, and I was able to get on pretty fast.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • But I remember him, in an English setting, and on the slopes of English hills.
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • The Germans knew the exact range of every square foot of the slopes.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
  • And now the sunlight raced down the slopes of the old mountains like a tide.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Close at hand vegetation appeared upon the slopes of the hills.
  • Extract from : « The Coyote » by James Roberts
  • For the most part these slopes and walls are exceedingly hard to climb.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
  • Its back was to the slopes that rose by marshy terraces to the hills.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • The slopes of the knoll were bare, but there were a few trees on the summit.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • To this spot the slopes both ways tend, and there they meet.
  • Extract from : « Byeways in Palestine » by James Finn
  • Can you name a street which is level, and one that slants or slopes?
  • Extract from : « Where We Live » by Emilie Van Beil Jacobs

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