slope
an elevated geological formation
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,806 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,909 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an elevated geological formation also: incline, side he climbed the steep slopethe house was built on the side of a mountain
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal also: gradient a five-degree gradient
verb
- be at an angle also: incline, pitch The terrain sloped down
slope in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It was a slope of gap-hedged fields possessed to their centres by clumps of brambles.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1
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He watched her for a second as she lightly jumped the burn and climbed the peaty slope.
The Half-Hearted · John Buchan · Chapter 2
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The road to Nice ran up in front of them, along the opposite slope of the valley.
The Fortune of the Rougons · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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The wind and the rain swept down a slope, half meadow, half clearing,--a mile away,--to a fringe of sycamores.
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation · Bret Harte · Chapter 1
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Frome did not even turn his head as we drove by, and still in silence we began to mount the next slope.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1