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hill

/hɪl/UK[hɪɫ]

hill noun: an elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

hill: an elevated landmass smaller than a mountain
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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.
    • Jack and Gill
      Went up the hill,
      To fetch a bottle of water.1795, Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus, Stockton: R. Christopher, page 51
  2. 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.
  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. The pitcher’s mound.
  6. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
    Antonyms:
    dale

Verb

hill (third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled)

  1. 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;1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  2. To heap or draw earth around plants.
    • After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.1977, Gene Weltfish, The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture, page 102

Proper noun capitalized: Hill

Hill

  1. (US, with-definite-article) Capitol Hill; the US Congress
  2. (Canada, with-definite-article) Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country
  3. 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.2015 June 18, Nate Chinen, “Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022
  4. A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
  5. A town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
  6. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6495).
  7. A hamlet in Leamington Hastings parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4567).
  8. A suburb near Four Oaks, City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1199).
  9. A former township in Halesowen, West Midlands, which later became Hill and Cakemore.
  10. A village in Saundersfoot community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1206).

hill meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

hill in Hindi

elevated location
पहाड़ी pahāṛī, पहाड़ pahāṛ, गिरि giri

hill in Tamil

elevated location
குன்று kuṉṟu, மலை malai

hill in Marathi

elevated location
टेकडी ṭekḍī

hill in Urdu

elevated location
پَہاڑی pahāṛī
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hill in Bengali
পাহাড় pahaṛ
hill in Telugu
కొండ koṇḍa, గుట్ట guṭṭa
hill in Malayalam
കുന്ന് kunnŭ, മല mala
hill in Kannada
ಗುಡ್ಡ, ಮೊರಡಿ, ಮಡ್ಡಿ, ಕುಂದ
hill in Punjabi
ਪਹਾੜੀ pahāṛī, پَہاڑِی pahāṛī
hill in Gujarati
ડુંગર ḍuṅgar, ટેકરો ṭekro, પહાડ pahāṛ, ગઢ gaḍh
hill in Odia
ପାହାଡ଼ pāhāṛa
hill in Sanskrit
गिरि giri
hill in Assamese
পাহাৰ pahar
hill in Nepali
डाँडा ḍā̃ḍā
hill in Pashto
غونډۍ
hill in Tagalog
burol, bangin
hill in Arabic
تَلّ tall, أَكَمَة ʔakama, هَضْبَة haḍba
hill in Malay
bukit
hill in Indonesian
bukit
hill in Thai
ภูเขา puu-kǎo, เนินเขา nəən-kǎo, เนิน nəən
hill in Vietnamese
đồi
hill in Myanmar
တောင် taung, ကုန်းနိမ့် kun:nim., တောင်ကုန်း taungkun:

Examples of hill in a sentence

  • This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
  • Let's stop for a breath when we get to the top of the hill.
  • He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

All 40 example sentences with hill

Antonyms of hill

Forms of hill

Noun
pluralhills
Verb
third-person singular presenthills
present participlehilling
past participlehilled
pasthilled

Plural of hill: hills

Origin of hill

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.

* 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”).

Words formed from hill

Phrases with hill

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Words that rhyme with hill

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Questions about hill

What does hill mean?
Hill means an elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
What is hill in Hindi?
Hill in Hindi is पहाड़ी (pahāṛī), पहाड़ (pahāṛ), गिरि (giri). See Hill meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hill?
Hill can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hill?
Hill is pronounced /hɪl/.
What is the plural of hill?
The plural of hill is hills.

Words near hill in the dictionary

  1. hiliting
  2. hilitings
  3. Hilișeu-Horia
  4. Hilker
  5. Hilkers
  6. hill
  7. hill cane
  8. hill canes
  9. hill censer
  10. hill censers
  11. hill chain

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hill (page history and authors); Hill (page history and authors); hill (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ગઢ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ପାହାଡ଼ (Odia) (page history and authors); डाँडा (Nepali) (page history and authors); غونډۍ (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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