HILLTOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hilltop mean? 

• HILLTOP (noun)
  The noun HILLTOP has 1 sense:

1. the peak of a hill

  Familiarity information: HILLTOP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HILLTOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The peak of a hill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

brow; hilltop

Context example:

the sun set behind the brow of distant hills

Hypernyms ("hilltop" is a kind of...):

crest; crown; peak; summit; tip; top (the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill))

 Context examples 

So he pattered on, standing on the hilltop with his crutch under his elbow and one hand upon the side of the log-house—quite the old John in voice, manner, and expression.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The snow had melted under the rain, and only the hilltops showed white.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Gold and purple clouds lay on the hilltops, and rising high into the ruddy light were silvery white peaks that shone like the airy spires of some Celestial City.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A raw wind was blowing, and the first flurries of snow were whitening the hilltops.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I do not know what it rightly is to faint, but I do know that for the next little while the whole world swam away from before me in a whirling mist; Silver and the birds, and the tall Spy-glass hilltop, going round and round and topsy-turvy before my eyes, and all manner of bells ringing and distant voices shouting in my ear.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The place was entirely land-locked, buried in woods, the trees coming right down to high-water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at a distance in a sort of amphitheatre, one here, one there.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)