hill
See also: Hill and hil'l'
English
A hill
Etymology
From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll (“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”), 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
- enPR: hĭl, IPA(key): /hɪl/, [hɪɫ]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪl
- Homophone: heel (in some dialects)
Noun
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.
- The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
- Antonym: dale
Hyponyms
- (elevation): hillock, toman (smaller hills)
Derived terms
- Adelaide Hills
- Ashford Hill
- Ashton under Hill
- Bardon Hill
- Bar Hill
- Barrow Hill
- Barton Hill
- Biggin Hill
- Blue Hill
- Box Hill
- Brierley Hill
- Broken Hill
- Buckhurst Hill
- Burgess Hill
- Bush Hill Park
- Camp Hill
- Caterham on the Hill
- Cheetham Hill
- Cherry Hill
- Chestnut Hill
- Childs Hill
- Chiltern Hills
- Clear Hills County
- Copley Hill
- Coton Hill
- Cotswold Hills
- Crews Hill
- Cross Hills
- Daisy Hill
- Denmark Hill
- Dollis Hill
- downhill
- Dudden Hill
- Dulwich Hill
- dunghill
- Dunham-on-the-Hill
- Edge Hill, Edgehill
- Elton on the Hill
- Forest Hill, Foresthill
- Forty Hill
- Gants Hill
- Gedney Hill
- Gipsy Hill
- Goose Hill, Goosehill
- Gordon Hill
- Grange Hill
- Gravelly 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 Down
- Hill of Fearn
- hillside
- hill station
- hilltop
- hilly
- Holly Hills
- Hotchley Hill
- Ide Hill
- Kenfig Hill
- king of the hill
- Laurentian Hills
- Lawrence Hill
- Low Hill
- Ludgate Hill
- Malvern Hills
- Marble Hill
- Marley Hill
- May Hill
- Mendip Hills
- Merry Hill
- Mill Hill
- Mills Hill
- molehill
- Morton on the Hill
- Mossley Hill
- Muswell Hill
- North Hill
- North Hills
- Northwood Hills
- Notting Hill
- Ocker Hill
- old as the hills, older than the hills
- Old Hill
- over the hill
- Primrose Hill
- Red Hill, Redhill
- Richmond Hill
- Rose Hill, Rosehill
- Rose Hills
- Shippea Hill
- Six Hills
- Snow Hill
- Stamford Hill
- Staple Hill
- Strawberry Hill
- Streatham Hill
- Sudbury Hill
- Surrey Hills
- Surry Hills
- Sydenham Hill
- Tile Hill
- Tilton on the Hill
- Tower Hill
- Tulse Hill
- Tyler Hill
- uphill
- Warden Hill
- Winchmore Hill
Translations
elevated location
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sloping road
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steepness
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heap of earth surrounding a plant
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baseball: pitcher's mound
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Further reading
hill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Hill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
hill (third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled)
- To form into a heap or mound.
- 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], OCLC 2413019:
- Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;
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- 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.
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Translations
To form into a heap or mound
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To heap or draw earth around plants
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Westrobothnian
Etymology
Related to jęll (“built structure”), from or related to Old Norse hjallr (“shed”). Cognate with Icelandic hilla, Swedish hylla.
Noun
hill f (definite singular hilla)
- shelf
Synonyms
- fjahl
Yola
Noun
hill
- Alternative form of hele (“hill”)
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Fearnee Hill.
- Ferny Hill.
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 39