hill

Meaning

Noun

1. An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
2. A sloping road.
3. A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
4. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
5. The pitcher’s mound.
6. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

Verb

1. To form into a heap or mound.
2. To heap or draw earth around plants.

Concepts

hill

mountain

knoll

mound

hillock

elevation

slope

mount

rock

eminence

hump

ridge

stone

small mountain

peak

rise

earth up

forest

cliff

height

rising ground

fell

highland

heap

pitcher’s mound

down

knap

swelling

jungle

plateau

rocky hill

bump

inselberg

butte

hummock

precipice

hillside

head

bukit

alp

pile

ankle

talus

amass

earth

hill up

fortress

artificial mound

coral

lump

bulge

knot

point

promontory

cone

pyramid

vegetation

moorland

upland

kopje

shelf

mound of earth

incline

mound mountain

stack

cumulus

embankment

crest

mountain ridge

elevated place

field

patch

tuffet

tuft

tump

small

summit

Loma

barrow

cloud

colina

loma

choline

humplock

highlands

mountain-pass

valley

steep

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɪl/

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.

Sentences

At some high hill passes the range provides cool sites appropriate for vineyards .