Hill
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English
Noun
Hill (plural Hills)- An elevated location smaller than a mountain
- A sloping road
- A heap of earth surrounding a plant
- (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
Adjectives for Hill
parched; savage; desolate; ghastly; treeless; volcanic; lower; square-topped; uprooted; eternal; full-grassed; lavish; granite; terraced; breezy; heaped; ever-changing; windy; environing; many-faced; vine-covered; overhanging; massive; bare; steep; incomparable; squalid; encompassing; disturbed; sequestered; pastoral; haughty; bald; bleak; commanding; breezy; ancient; folded; pulpy; conical; cup-shaped; quaking; parched; steadfast; skirting; everlasting; undulating; opprobrious; huge; inferior; barren; disconsolate; invisible; chalk; low-lying; alluvial; rolling; smooth; dawning; wooded; remote; defiant; eternal; silent; dominating; romantic; pestilent; rhododendron; distant; thic-keted; sunny; dusty; windy; colored; precipitous; echo-giving; sun-baked; classical; retiring; cindery; pine-clad; spotless; milk-en; swelling; carven; monumental; forked; savage; timbered; rocky; rock-ribbed; answering; ice-clad; templed; leaping; heathery; pastoral; reeking; distorted; detached; high; utmost; flowery; populous; bustling; fertile; bedimmed; dreary; dark; cloud-capped; sun-kissed; umbrageous; misty; lowering; superb; billowy; consecrated; sterile; craglike; dewy; trembling; gleaming; moon-tortured; green-clad; emerald; autumn-tinted; moon-swept; dense; verdured; moonlit; silver; verdant; radiant; silent; shimmering; bright; stony; tawny; soft; rolling; gentle; peak; shadowed; scarred; rock-ribbed; primeval; neighboring; dripping; innocent; reverberating; ferny; naked; forest-cinctured; long-contested; alluring; picturesque; arid; delicious; slanting; soilless; heathery; dry;
Verbs for Hill
cap—; clear away—; coast down—; crown—; descend—; dwell in —s; heap into —s; observe from—; peep over—; retreat to —s; scale—; settle in —s; stray to—s; survey from—; toil up—; tumble down—; —arises; —charms; — dot; — encroach; — entrance; —flanks; —s greet; —interposes ; —shades; —shadows; mount;
Thesaurus
mount, mountain, mow, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, pile, pile up, prominence, promontory, pyramid, rib, rick, ridge, ring, rise, sand dune, shock, shoulder, slope, snowdrift, spine, stack, stack up, stud, style, swell, tab, tor, tubercle, tubercule, upgrade, upland, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt, acclivity, anthill, bank, bank up, barrow, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, cock, condyle, convex, decline, declivity, dowel, down, downgrade, downs, drift, drumlin, dune, ear, elevation, embankment, eminence, fell, flange, flap, foothill, foothills, gall, gnarl, grade, gradient, handle, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, height, highland, hillock, hummock, hump, hunch, incline, jog, joggle, knob, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound,
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kolən-, *koləm- (“top, hill, rock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Icelandic hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
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