steep
The steep side of a mountain etcThe steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.
» We climbed up the steep mountain.
Wir erklommen den steilen Berg.
Meaning
3 sensesThe steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.
(countable, uncountable)A liquid used in a steeping process
Corn steep has many industrial uses.
Lauge
нава́рnavár
(countable, uncountable)A rennet bag.
- a steep place (as on a hill)
Examples
118 sentencesWe climbed up the steep mountain.
deWir erklommen den steilen Berg. — xtofu80
That path is a bit steep.
The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
ruТропа виляла по крутому склону. — Karok
deDer Pfad führte im Zickzack den steilen Hang hoch. — Yorwba
We walked carefully down the steep mountain path.
The higher we climbed, the steeper the mountain became.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English steep, from Old English stēap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz,From Middle English steep, from Old English stēap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”).
From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijaną (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English stūpian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Related to stoop.
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