Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a cliff on the other.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An unsymmetrical ridge having a strong slope or escarpment on one side and a gentle slope on the other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Southwestern U. S. A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geomorphology
slope (acclivity ordeclivity ).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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A cuesta is like a mesa except that it tapers off to one side.
worlds in a grain of sand Andrew 2004
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A cuesta is like a mesa except that it tapers off to one side.
Archive 2004-03-01 Andrew 2004
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The next day we walked up a really steep hill (it put my 'cuesta' to shame) to get to
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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¿Cuanto me cuesta si podemos arreglar este asunto aquí?
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¿Cuanto me cuesta si podemos arreglar este asunto aquí?
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¿Cuanto me cuesta si podemos arreglar este asunto aquí?
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¿Cuanto me cuesta si podemos arreglar este asunto aquí?
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¿Cuanto me cuesta si podemos arreglar este asunto aquí?
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¿Cuanto me cuesta si podemos arreglar este asunto aquí?
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¿Cuanto me cuesta si podemos arreglar este asunto aquí?
super-kawy commented on the word cuesta
A ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a cliff on the other. (Spanish, from costa, side.)
September 22, 2009