Definitions for anthill

anthill ant·hill

Spelling: [ant-hil]
IPA: /ˈæntˌhɪl/

Anthill is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in anthill (ahillnt).

Definitions for anthill

noun

  1. a mound of earth, leaves, etc., formed by a colony of ants in digging or constructing their underground nest.

Origin of anthill

1250-1300; Middle English amete hulle, ampte hille; see ant, hill

Examples for anthill

He was about 400 yards off, and was running from one anthill to another.

Many lead to the pens of the Aphides; they reach from the anthill as far as the foot of a plant where these insects are abundant.

And he was turned into an anthill covered over with creepers.

You will be pegged out on an anthill, sahib, when you have been beaten.

This place is just like an enormous anthill—you know an anthill is nothing but a nursery.

Another man was lying below an anthill, about 300 yards off, popping his head out now and again to fire.

Don Pedro had issued such a command as this, with as much indifference as he would have placed his foot upon an anthill.

This large city lay in the landscape like an anthill in a meadow.

True or false, the story results in every anthill being carefully searched.

He came to an anthill and won all the hearts and enlisted the sympathies of the industrious little people.

Word Value for anthill
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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