0 a low mountain or low hill at the bottom of a larger mountain or range of mountains: --
the foothills of the Pyrenees
1 a low hill at the base of a mountain or group of mountains --
We shall, after all, be starting from the lowest foothills, looking up at a very high mountain.
This is the foothill, as it were, to the mountain of important legislation that will come before us within a week from now.
There is a great deal of negotiation to do yet; we are only beginning on the small foothills of this mountain of negotiations.
No one wants even modest foothills of frozen lamb, let alone mountains.
We are walking hopefully in the scientific foothills of a gigantic mountain range.
From these heights those struggling in the foothills of mere research are perhaps too easily overlooked, and their emphasis on the routine disciplines of research too easily marginalized.
But these were limited by the amount of money a woman could realize from the sporadic sale of her young male kids in the desert foothills' market towns.
Commerce also flourished between the lowlands and the foothills.
