hill
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- enPR: hĭl, IPA(key): /hɪl/
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): [hɪɫ]
- (l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [hɪo̯], [hɪʊ̯]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪl
- Homophone: he'll (in some dialects)
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:
- 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 edit
Derived terms edit
- Adelaide Hills
- ant-hill
- Ashford Hill
- Ash Hill
- Ashton under Hill
- Bardon Hill
- Bar Hill
- Barrow Hill
- Barton Hill
- Biggin Hill
- Birley with Upper Hill
- Blue Hill
- Bowen Hills
- Box Hill
- Brierley Hill
- Brockley Hill
- Broken Hill
- Buckhurst Hill
- Burgess Hill
- Burrough on the Hill
- Burrough on the Hill
- Bush Hill Park
- Caelian Hill
- Callow Hill
- Camp Hill
- Caterham on the Hill
- Chapel and Hill Chorlton
- Cheetham Hill
- Cherry Hill
- Chestnut Hill
- Childs Hill
- Chiltern Hills
- city on a hill
- city upon a hill
- Clear Hills County
- Clee Hills
- common hill myna
- Copley Hill
- Coton Hill
- Cotswold Hills
- Crews Hill
- Cross Hills
- Daisy Hill
- Denmark Hill
- Dollis Hill
- downhill
- Dudden Hill
- Dulwich Hill
- dunghill
- dung-hill
- Dunham-on-the-Hill
- Edge Hill, Edgehill
- Elton on the Hill
- fairy hill
- Farmington Hills
- Forest Hill, Foresthill
- Forty Hill
- Gants Hill
- Gedney Hill
- Gipsy Hill
- Goose Hill, Goosehill
- Gordon Hill
- Granada Hills
- Grange Hill
- Gravelly Hill
- gravity hill
- Grove Hill
- Halton Hills
- Hampton Hill
- Harrow on the Hill
- Haverton Hill
- head for the hills
- Herne Hill
- hillbilly
- hill cane
- hill censer
- hill chain
- Hill Chorlton
- Hill Chorlton
- Hill City
- hill climb
- hill climbing
- hill country blues
- hill fire
- hill-fort
- hilling
- hill-like
- hillock
- hill of beans
- Hill of Down
- Hill of Fearn
- hill partridge
- hill rat
- hillside
- hill start
- hill-station
- hill station
- hill to die on
- hilltop
- hill-topping
- hill-topping
- hill town
- hill-troll
- hilly
- Holly Hills
- Hotchley Hill
- Hunny Hill
- Ide Hill
- Kenfig Hill
- king of the hill
- Laurel Hill
- Laurel Hill
- Laurentian Hills
- Lawrence Hill
- Leighton Hill
- Ley Hill
- light on the hill
- Low Hill
- Ludgate Hill
- Malvern Hills
- Marble Hill
- Marley Hill
- May Hill
- Mendip Hills
- Merry Hill
- midden-hill
- Mill Hill
- Mills Hill
- mole hill
- molehill
- Morton on the Hill
- Mossley Hill
- Muswell Hill
- mute-hill
- North Hill
- North Hills
- Northwood Hills
- Notting Hill
- Ocker Hill
- old as the hills, older than the hills
- Old Hill
- over the hill
- Park Hill
- Park Hill
- Primrose Hill
- Red Hill, Redhill
- Red Sea Hills
- Richmond Hill
- Rochester Hills
- Rose Hill, Rosehill
- Rose Hills
- Saddle Hills County
- Shippea Hill
- Sidlaw Hills
- Six Hills
- Smoky Hill
- Smoky Hills
- Snob Hill
- Snow Hill
- Stamford Hill
- Staple Hill
- St Giles's Hill
- Strawberry Hill
- Streatham Hill
- Sudbury Hill
- Surrey Hills
- Surry Hills
- Sydenham Hill
- Tile Hill
- Tilton on the Hill
- Tower Hill
- Tulse Hill
- Turners Hill
- Turners Hill
- Tyler Hill
- uphill
- up hill and down dale
- up hill and down dell
- Upper Hill
- Warden Hill
- Warren Hill
- West Hill
- West Hills
- Winchmore Hill
Translations edit
elevated location
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sloping road
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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.
- 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC:
- Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;
- 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
To form into a heap or mound
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Yola edit
Noun edit
hill
- Alternative form of hele (“hill”)
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Fearnee Hill.
- Ferny Hill.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 39