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hillier

hillier is the comparative form of hilly.

Meaning of hilly

Adjective

hilly (comparative hillier, superlative hilliest)

  1. Abundant in hills; having many hills.
    • The intermediate station seen here, Llanbister Road, is 5 hilly miles by road from the town it purports to serve.1962 August, “More W.R. services in jeopardy”, in Modern Railways, page 82, photo caption

Proper noun capitalized: Hillier

Hillier

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a tiler.
  2. A community in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
  3. A northern suburb of Adelaide in the Town of Gawler, South Australia.

Origin of hillier

* As an English occupational surname for a roofer, from the noun hellier (“one who heles, thatches”). * As a French surname, from the personal name Hillier, vernacular form of Hilaire.

Questions about hillier

What does hillier mean?
Hillier means a surname originating as an occupation for a tiler.
What is hillier the comparative form of?
Hillier is the comparative form of hilly.
What part of speech is hillier?
Hillier is a proper noun.

Words near hillier in the dictionary

  1. Hillhouses
  2. Hilliam
  3. Hilliard
  4. Hilliards
  5. hillie
  6. hillier
  7. hilliest
  8. Hilligoss
  9. Hilligosses
  10. Hilliker
  11. Hillikers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hillier (page history and authors); Hillier (page history and authors); hilly (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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