hill
see also: Hill
Etymology

From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll, from Proto-Germanic *hulliz, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)).

Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle ("hill"), Low German hull, Old Norse hóll, Latin collis, Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë, Russian холм, Old English holm. More at holm.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: hĭl, IPA: /hɪl/
    • (RP, America) IPA: [hɪɫ]
    • (l-vocalizing:, _, British, Australia, New Zealand) IPA: [hɪo̯], [hɪʊ̯]
Noun

hill (plural hills)

  1. An elevated landmass 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 ↗:
      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.
  6. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
    Antonyms: dale
Translations Translations Translations Verb

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

  1. To form into a heap or mound.
    • 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC ↗:
      Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;
  2. To heap or draw earth around plants.
Translations Translations
Hill
Etymology
  • As an English surname, from the noun hill, shortened from Hilary, and from Old English hild.
  • As a German - surname, shortened from Hildebrand, related to the last sense above.
  • As a Finnish - surname, calque of Finnish Mäki (“hill”).
Pronunciation Proper noun
  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.
  4. A number of places:
    1. A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
    2. A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
    3. A small village/and/cpar (without a council) in South Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6495).
    4. A hamlet in Leamington Hastings, Rugby (OS grid ref SP4567).
    5. A suburb near Four Oaks (OS grid ref SP1199).
    6. A former township in Halesowen, West Midlands, which later became Hill and Cakemore.
    7. A village in Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire (OS grid ref SN1206).



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