Usually means: Decline in elevation or quality.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word downhill:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. downhill: Merriam-Webster
  2. downhill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. downhill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. downhill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. downhill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Downhill, downhill: Wordnik
  7. downhill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. downhill: Wiktionary
  9. downhill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. downhill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. downhill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Downhill, downhill: Dictionary.com
  13. downhill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Downhill (ski competition), Downhill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Downhill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. downhill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. downhill: Rhymezone
  18. downhill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. downhill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. downhill: FreeDictionary.org
  21. downhill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. downhill: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. downhill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downhill: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downhill: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downhill: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downhill: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Downhill: Sports Definitions

(Note: See downhilling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Down a slope.
adverb:  (by extension) So as to deteriorate or get worse.
adjective:  Located towards or at the bottom of a slope or hill.
adjective:  Going down a slope or a hill.
adjective:  (by extension) Easy.
noun:  (uncountable) The fastest of the disciplines of alpine skiing.
noun:  (countable) A rapid descent of a hill in related sports, especially in alpine skiing.
verb:  To take part in downhill skiing.
noun:  A coastal village and beach (Downhill Strand) in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
noun:  A hamlet in St Eval parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8669).
noun:  A northern suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3559).

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