English Explanatory Dictionary

heap

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. A great number or large quantity of things.
  4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  6. A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  7. A lot, a large amount
verb
  1. To pile in a heap.
  2. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  3. To supply in great quantity.
adv
  1. very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. Acronym of high explosive armor-piercing.

Pronunciation

hēp /hiːp/ hāp /heːp/ en-us-heap.ogg

Word forms

heap heaps heaping heaped

Etymology

From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).

Synonyms

heap up pile up amass

Related words

Heap Bridge

Derived words

aheap all of a heap ant-heap antheap ash-heap ash-heap-cake ash heap of history at the top of the heap compost heap dung heap dung-heap dustheap dust heap of history garbage heap of history Heap Bridge heaper heapful heapmeal heapsort heapy it takes a heap of living to make a house a home it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home junkheap minheap moleheap muckheap mudheap sandheap scrap heap scrapheap scrap-heap semiheap shellheap shitheap slag heap spoil heap subheap thanks a heap to-heap trash heap of history treap heapability heapable heap coals of fire on someone's head heaped heaping heap insult on injury heap on heap up overheap upheap Heapster
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