hilllike
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hilllike (comparative more hilllike, superlative most hilllike)
- Resembling a hill or hills.
- 1983, Rik Pinxten, Ingrid Van Dooren, Frank Harvey, Anthropology of space:
- […] it is visualized as a formation with ends coming down, or a hilllike formation, leveling out near the end of its length.
- 1983, Rachel Swayze O'Connor, Allie Bayne Windham Webb, Mistress of Evergreen Plantation: Rachel O'Connor's legacy of letters, 1823-1845:
- They are raised hilllike areas rising above the surrounding flat marshlands.
- 1990, Les Holliday, Geoff Rodgers, Coral reefs: a global view:
- Patch reefs are hilllike reefs that often occur in sandy lagoon areas or on the upper reef slope of gently inclined fringing reefs.
Usage notes
[edit]- hill-like is several times more common than hilllike in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid a triple consonant.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ (hilllike*20),hill-like at the Google Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov