hilltop

He named it for its hilltop site, Monticello, meaning “little mountain” in Italian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

"I think being able to trace my family back to that small hilltop town and the surrounding land is something I didn't appreciate until I was right there," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

The hilltop abode, which spans nearly 5,000 square feet, was initially listed for $6.99 million in June 2025, 11 months after Simmons died.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

In Rajasthan's Bhagwanpura village, 18-year-old Nikita Meena and fellow residents have camped on a hilltop since January to stop miners entering one of the last untouched stretches.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

Tally looked down, plotting trajectories from the hilltop, shushing David when he started to speak again, the wheels of her brain spinning.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Then CRG turned south to Festus, nestled near limestone bluffs and densely forested hilltops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

But the hilltops and open canyons also have provided spaces to unleash unbridled joy from new romance, exciting career turns and those same family members’ health and recovery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024

The researchers analyzed what the landscape would have been like in the past and concluded the serpents would have been most visible from other hilltops and from the river.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024

They took slow panoramas from hilltops, and held still for minutes, sometimes hours, on downtown garment-shop blocks or railroad crossings.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

I dared not go far over the hilltops, lest I lose my backtrack; it was wild country, steep, full of creeks and ravines, rising fast to the cloud-haunted mountains eastward.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The origin of hilltopping is, however, easily understood.

From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace