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hill¹
- /hɪl/
- [hɪɫ] UK, US
- [hɪo̯]
- [hɪʊ̯]
Sounds like he'll (in some dialects) · Rhymes with -ɪl
Where it comes from
From Middle English hil (“hill”), from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulli (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)).
Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Faroese hólur (“hill”), Icelandic and Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Norn hul (“hillock”), Norwegian hol (“low hillock”), Swedish kulle (“hill”), Catalan coll (“hill”), Italian colle (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas (“hill, mountain”), Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
noun hills
- An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain. The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.
- A sloping part of a landscape, especially one with a road, trail, etc. You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
- A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
- A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them. a hill of corn or potatoes
- The pitcher’s mound.
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The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
Opposite: dale
verb hills · hilling · hilled
- To form into a heap or mound. Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;
- To heap or draw earth around plants. After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.
Hill²
- /hɪl/
Rhymes with -ɪl
Where it comes from
* As an English surname, from the noun hill, shortened from Hilary, and from Old English hild (“battle”).
* As a German surname, shortened from Hildebrand, related to the last sense above.
* As a Finnish surname, calque of Finnish Mäki (“hill”).
proper noun
- Capitol Hill; the US Congress
- Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill. Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif.
- A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
- A town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6495).
- A hamlet in Leamington Hastings parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4567).
- A suburb near Four Oaks, City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1199).
- A former township in Halesowen, West Midlands, which later became Hill and Cakemore.
- A village in Saundersfoot community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1206).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mound, colline, mont, mount, heights, hillside, hilltop, mountainous, highland, montane, mountain, cliff, plateau, coast, landslide, hail
Translations
Every language
noun elevated location
| Español | cerro, loma, colina, collado, alcor, otero |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 언덕 eondeok, 소산 sosan, 산언덕 saneondeok |
| 日本語 | 丘 oka, 小山 koyama |
| 中文 | 小山 xiǎoshān, 山丘 shānqiū |
| हिन्दी | पहाड़ी pahāṛī, पहाड़ pahāṛ, गिरि giri |
| Kiswahili | kilima |
| Português | colina, morro |
| Français | colline |
| Deutsch | Hügel |
| Italiano | collina, colle |
| Ελληνικά | λόφος lófos |
| Română | deal, colină |
| Русский | холм xolm, го́рка górka, высота́ vysotá, приго́рок prigórok, возвыше́ние vozvyšénije |
| Tiếng Việt | đồi |
| العربية | تَلّ tall, أَكَمَة ʔakama, هَضْبَة haḍba |
| עברית | גִּבְעָה giv'á, תֵּל tel |
noun sloping road
| 日本語 | 坂 saka |
|---|---|
| Français | côte |
| Deutsch | Hang, Steigung |
| Ελληνικά | κλίση klísi |
| Русский | подъём podʺjóm, спуск spusk |
noun baseball: pitcher's mound
| 日本語 | マウンド maundo |
|---|
verb To form into a heap or mound
| Deutsch | häufeln |
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title = {hill},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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