Definitions for Hill

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Hill hill

Spelling: [hil]

IPA: /hɪl/

Hill is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Hill (hill).

Definitions for Hill

noun

1. a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
2. an incline, especially in a road:
3. an artificial heap, pile, or mound:
4. a small mound of earth raised about a cultivated plant or a cluster of such plants.
5. the plant or plants so surrounded:
6. Baseball. mound1 (def 4).
7. the Hill, Capitol Hill.
8. Ambrose Powell [pou-uh l] /ˈpaʊ əl/ (Show IPA), 1825–65, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
9. Archibald Vivian [viv-ee-uh n] /ˈvɪv i ən/ (Show IPA), 1886–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1922.
10. James Jerome, 1838–1916, U.S. railroad builder and financier, born in Canada.
11. Joe, 1879–1915, U.S. labor organizer and songwriter, born in Sweden.
12. the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
13. Informal. the U.S. Congress.

Idioms

1. go over the hill, Slang. to break out of prison. to absent oneself without leave from one's military unit. to leave suddenly or mysteriously:
2. over the hill, relatively advanced in age. past one's prime.

verb (used with object)

1. to surround with hills:
2. to form into a hill or heap.

Origin of Hill

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hyll; cognate with Middle Dutch hille, Latin collis hill; compare Latin culmen top, peak (see column, Examples for Hill

Johnson knew that the proposals he was going to send to the hill would be divisive.

Bivouacked on North-West side of hill, at a small water-hole.

This afternoon I took a round of angles and bearings from a pile of stones on the hill.

The sides of this hill he covered with a layer of bricks that the sand might not be blown away.

Shakur remains very much alive, along with hill, Morales, LeBeef and the others.

We sighted the range and hill seen by my brother, and reached it at sundown.

“I have never felt guilty about that cop,” hill was quoted saying.

They all descended from the hill and came on slowly towards us.

We drove back down the hill, and the driver let me out near the Prado.

But then the summit gives way to the other side of the hill, and a childlike glee arises from the whooooosh of the descent.