• IPA: /hɪl/

hill (plural hills)

1. An elevated location smaller than a mountain.

   The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803 ↗:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

2. A sloping road.

   You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.

3. (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
4. (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

   a hill of corn or potatoes

5. (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.

• French: colline
• German: Hügel
• Italian: collina, colle
• Portuguese: monte, colina, morro (1), ladeira (2), barranco
• Russian: холм
• Spanish: cerro, loma, colina, collado, alcor

• French: côte
• German: Hang, Steigung
• Russian: (ascending) подъём

• German: Steigung, Anstieg

hill (hills, present participle hilling; past and past participle hilled)

1. To form into a heap or mound.
2. To heap or draw earth around plants.

• German: häufeln

• German: häufeln

• IPA: /hɪl/

1. (US, with "the") Capitol Hill; the US Congress
2. (Canada, with "the") Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country
3. Surname for someone who lived on or by a hill.