cuesta

Meaning of cuesta

noun

a ridge with a gentle slope (dip) on one side and a steep slope (scarp) on the other.

early 19th century (originally a US term for a steep slope at the edge of a plain): from Spanish, ‘slope’, from Latin costa ‘rib, flank’.

Information about cuesta

Hyphenation of cuesta

cuesta

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • cuesta is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of cuesta

acutes, Escaut

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