heap

Meaning

Noun

1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
3. A great number or large quantity of things.
4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
6. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
7. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount

Verb

1. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
2. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

Adv

very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans

Synonyms

pile

stack

mass

collection

multitude

mound

pile up

crowd

accumulate

accumulation

group

collect

quantity

mountain

⛰️

lump

bevy

set

assemble

assemblage

load

amass

gather

herd

swarm

lot

rampart

hoard

great deal

drift

bundle

heap up

flock

batch

store

mess

roll

knoll

wood pile

plenty

agglomerate

hillock

pot

peck

hatful

body

cumulus

cluster

good deal

raft

clump

Translations

tas

Haufen

montón

mucchio

entasser

cumulo

pila

cúmulo

hoop

ophopen

pilha

catasta

σωρός

amas

opeenhopen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hiːp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hepe

Inherited from Old English: hēap

Cognate with Dutch: hoop

Cognate with German: Haufen

Cognate with Lithuanian: kaũpas

Cognate with Albanian: qipi

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀

In summary

From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).

Sentences

Besides that , there was a heap of bicycles .