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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English hill, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kolən-, *koləm- (“top, hill, 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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hill (plural hills)
- An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
- The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
- 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.
- A sloping road.
- You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
- (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
- (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
- (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
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Derived terms[edit]
- Bardon Hill
- Barrow Hill
- Barton Hill
- Biggin Hill
- Blue Hill
- Box Hill
- Brierley Hill
- Broken Hill
- Burgess Hill
- Camp Hill
- Chiltern Hills
- Copley Hill
- Coton Hill
- Cotswold Hills
- Denmark Hill
- downhill
- Dudden Hill
- dunghill
- Dunham-on-the-Hill
- Edge Hill, Edgehill
- Elton on the Hill
- Forty Hill
- Gants Hill
- Gedney Hill
- Gipsy Hill
- Grove Hill
- Hampton Hill
- Harrow on the Hill
- Haverton Hill
- head for the hills
- Herne Hill
- hillbilly
- Hill City
- hill country blues
- hilling
- hillock
- hill of beans
- Hill of Fearn
- hillside
- hill station
- hilltop
- hilly
- Holly Hills
- Hotchley Hill
- king of the hill
- Lawrence Hill
- Low Hill
- Ludgate Hill
- Malvern Hills
- Marble Hill
- Marley Hill
- May Hill
- Mendip Hills
- Mill Hill
- Mills Hill
- molehill
- Mossley Hill
- Muswell Hill
- Northwood Hills
- Notting Hill
- Old Hill
- over the hill
- Primrose Hill
- Richmond Hill
- Shippea Hill
- Six Hills
- Strawberry Hill
- Streatham Hill
- Surry Hills
- Tile Hill
- Tilton on the Hill
- Tower Hill
- Tulse Hill
- Tyler Hill
- uphill
- Warden Hill
- Winchmore Hill
Translations[edit]
elevated location
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sloping road
steepness
heap of earth surrounding a plant
baseball: pitcher's mound
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Further reading[edit]
hill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Hill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb[edit]
hill (third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled)
- To form into a heap or mound.
- To heap or draw earth around plants.
- 1977, Gene Weltfish, The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture, page 102:
- After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.
Translations[edit]
Westrobothnian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Icelandic hilla, Swedish hylla.
Noun[edit]
hill f (definite singular hilla)
Synonyms[edit]
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