hill station

• hill-station

hill station (plural hill stations)

1. (chiefly British, South Asia, Myanmar) In South and Southeast Asia, a small community located at a relatively high elevation which serves as a retreat or vacation location during the hot summers; historically, a village or military post so used by colonial officials.
   • 1897, Andrew Lang, chapter 4, in The Book of Dreams and Ghosts:

     In 1854, General Barter, C.B., was a subaltern in the 75th Regiment, and was doing duty at the hill station of Murree in the Punjaub.

   • 1964 May 28, Victor Anant, “Indians' anxious look at the era after Nehru”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 10 June 2009:

     At 6.25 a.m. today Mr Nehru, who had gone to sleep last night "fresh and fit" after his short holiday at a hill station, had a stroke.

   • 2006 October 15, Vijay Singh, “From Navi Mumbai, chilling is a drive away”, in Times of India, retrieved 10 June 2009:

     For builder Rakesh Prajapati, the ideal weekend is trekking up the wild path to reach hill station Matheran.

Darjeeling, a hill station in West Bengal, India