foothill

foothill

English

Etymology

foot +‎ hill

Noun

foothill (plural foothills)

1. A hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.
   • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

     The summit of the climb came 38km from the end of stage 14, which began in Limoux and ended in Foix in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the incident occurred as the peloton emerged into the light and passed under the banner at the top, a quarter of an hour behind a five-man breakaway.

Translations

hill at the base of a mountain

Bulgarian: подножие (bg) n (podnožie) Chinese: Mandarin: 山麓 (zh) (shānlù), 山腳 (zh), 山脚 (zh) (shānjiǎo) Czech: podhůří n Finnish: aluskukkula French: contrefort (fr) m, piémont (fr) m German: Vorberg m

Hindi: तलहटी (hi) f (talahṭī) Japanese: 前山 (ぜんざん, zenzan), 山裾 (やますそ, yamasuso) Macedonian: предгорје n (predgorje) Russian: предго́рье (ru) n (predgórʹje), подно́жие (ru) n (podnóžije) Serbo-Croatian: predbrđe n Tagalog: paambundok