English Explanatory Dictionary

hill

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
  2. A sloping road.
  3. A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
  4. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
  5. The pitcher’s mound.
  6. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
verb
  1. To form into a heap or mound.
  2. To heap or draw earth around plants.
name
  1. Capitol Hill; the US Congress
  2. 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.
  4. A number of places:
  5. A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
  6. A town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
  7. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6495).
  8. A hamlet in Leamington Hastings parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4567).
  9. A suburb near Four Oaks, City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1199).
  10. A former township in Halesowen, West Midlands, which later became Hill and Cakemore.
  11. A village in Saundersfoot community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1206).

Pronunciation

hĭl /hɪl/ [hɪɫ] [hɪo̯] [hɪʊ̯] en-us-hill.ogg

Word forms

hill hills hilling hilled

Etymology

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.

Antonyms

dale

Derived words

Acacia Hills Adelaide Hills Alabama Hills Alexandra Hills ant-hill anthill Arana Hills Argents Hill Ashford Hill Ash Hill Ashton under Hill Aurora Hill Bakers Hill Bakery Hill Bald Hills Bardon Hill Bar Hill Barlows Hill Barrack Hill Barrow Hill Barton Hill Bass Hill Batasan Hills Battery Hill Baulkham Hills Bayston Hill Beacon Hill Beaumont Hills Bellevue Hill Bell Post Hill Berry Hill Beverly Hills Bielsdown Hills Biggin Hill Big Hill Birley with Upper Hill Blackford Hill Black Hill Black Hills Blue Hill Boerum Hill Bonnet Hill Bonny Hills Bornes Hill Boustead Hill Bowen Hills Bowhill Box Hill Box Hill North Box Hill South Boxwood Hill Brandy Hill Breedon on the Hill Briar Hill Brierley Hill Brockley Hill Broken Hill Brookhill Broomehill East Broomehill Village
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