hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭl
ipa: /hɪl/
ipa: [hɪɫ]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [hɪo̯]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [hɪʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: he'll (in some dialects)
Forms: form: hills
Etymology: From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll (“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”), Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
Senses: examples: text: The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.
text: 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.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
examples: text: You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
glosses: A sloping road.
glosses: A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
examples: text: a hill of corn or potatoes
glosses: A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The pitcher’s mound.
antonyms: dale
glosses: The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
Hyponyms: sense: elevation
word: hillock
sense: elevation
english: smaller hills
translation: smaller hills
word: toman
Derived terms: Adelaide Hills
ant-hill
anthill
Ashford Hill
Ash Hill
Ashton under Hill
Aurora Hill
Bardon Hill
Bar Hill
Barrack Hill
Barrow Hill
Barton Hill
Batasan Hills
Baulkham Hills
Bayston Hill
Berry Hill
Biggin Hill
Birley with Upper Hill
Blackford Hill
Black Hill
Black Hills
Blue Hill
Boerum Hill
Boustead Hill
Bowen Hills
Box Hill
Breedon on the Hill
Brierley Hill
Brockley Hill
Broken Hill
Broomy Hill
Buckhurst Hill
bunny hill
Burgess Hill
Burrough on the Hill
Bush Hill Park
Caelian Hill
Callow Hill
Camp Hill
Castle Hill
Caterham on the Hill
Chapel and Hill Chorlton
Cheetham Hill
Cherry Hill
Chestnut Hill
Cheviot Hills
Childs Hill
Chiltern Hills
Churchill
city on a hill
city upon a hill
Clapton-on-the-Hill
Clear Hills County
Clee Hills
common hill myna
Copley Hill
Coton Hill
Cotswold Hills
Crews Hill
Cross Hills
Daisy Hill
Denmark Hill
Dollis Hill
downhill
Dudden Hill
Dulwich Hill
dunghill
dung-hill
Dunham-on-the-Hill
Edge Hill
Edgehill
Elton on the Hill
Esquiline Hill
fairy hill
Farmington Hills
foothill
Foresthill
Forest Hill
Forest Hills
forhill
Forty Hill
Friendly Hills
Gants Hill
Gedney Hill
Gipsy Hill
Goose Hill
Goosehill
Gordon Hill
Granada Hills
Grange Hill
Gravelly Hill
gravity hill
Gringley on the Hill
Grove Hill
Halton Hills
Hampton Hill
Harrow on the Hill
Haverton Hill
head for the hills
Hedley on the Hill
Herne Hill
hillbilly
hill cane
hill censer
hill chain
Hill Chorlton
Hill City
hillclimb
hill climb
hillclimber
hill climbing
hillclimbing
Hill Country
hill country blues
hillcraft
hillcrest
Hiller
hiller
hill fire
hillfolk
hill-fort
hilling
hillish
hilllike
hill-like
hillman
hillock
hill of beans
Hill of Down
Hill of Fearn
hill partridge
hill pigeon
hill rat
hillscape
Hillsdale
hillshade
hillside
hillslope
hillsman
hillspeople
hill start
hill-station
hill station
hillstream
Hillsville
hill to die on
hilltop
hill-topping
hill town
Hilltown
hilltown
hilltribe
hill-troll
hillwalker
hillwalking
hillward
hillwards
hillwash
hillwoman
hillwort
hilly
Holly Hills
Hotchley Hill
Hough-on-the-Hill
Hunny Hill
Hunters Hill
Hunter's Hill
Ide Hill
Kenfig Hill
Kents Hill
king of the hill
Laurel Hill
Laurentian Hills
Lawrence Hill
Leighton Hill
Leith Hill
Ley Hill
light on the hill
Long Hill
Low Hill
Ludgate Hill
Magsaysay Hills
Malvern Hills
Marble Hill
Marley Hill
May Hill
Mendip Hills
Merry Hill
midden-hill
Mill Hill
Mills Hill
mole hill
molehill
moothill
Morton on the Hill
Mossley Hill
muckhill
Mullica Hill
Murray Hill
Muswell Hill
mute-hill
Naga Hills
Napton on the Hill
North Hill
North Hills
Northwood Hills
Notting Hill
Ocker Hill
old as the hills
older than the hills
Old Hill
over the hill
Panoche Hills
Park Hill
Parliament Hill
Pennant Hills
Pine Hill
Port Hills
Primrose Hill
Quantock Hills
Queenhill
Quezon Hill
Quirino Hill
Red Hill
Redhill
Red Sea Hills
Richland Hills
Richmond Hill
Rochester Hills
Rose Hill
Rosehill
Rose Hills
Rouse Hill
Saddle Hills County
Salt Hill
sandhill
sandhiller
Seven Hills
Shippea Hill
Shooters Hill
Short Hills
sidehill
Sidlaw Hills
Six Hills
Smoky Hill
Smoky Hills
Snob Hill
Snow Hill
Sri Lanka hill myna
Stamford Hill
Staple Hill
Staple Hill and Mangotsfield
St Giles's Hill
Strawberry Hill
Streatham Hill
Sudbury Hill
Surrey Hills
Surry Hills
Swan Hill
Sydenham Hill
Tara Hills
Telegraph Hill
Thorpe on the Hill
Tile Hill
Tilton on the Hill
Tower Hill
Townhill
Toys Hill
Trent Hills
Tulse Hill
Turners Hill
Tutt Hill
Tyler Hill
underhill
Underhill
unhill
University Hills
uphill
up hill and down dale
up hill and down dell
Upper Hill
Vestavia Hills
Viminal Hill
Warden Hill
Warren Hill
West Hill
West Hills
Wick Hill
Winchmore Hill
Winston Hills
Witham on the Hill
yellow hill ant