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单词 hills
释义

hill

1 of 2

noun

ˈhil How to pronounce hill (audio)
1
: a usually rounded natural elevation of land lower than a mountain
2
: an artificial heap or mound (as of earth)
3
: several seeds or plants planted in a group rather than a row
4
: slope, incline

hill

2 of 2

verb

hilled; hilling; hills

transitive verb

1
: to form into a heap
2
: to draw earth around the roots or base of
hiller noun

Synonyms

Noun

  • cock
  • heap
  • mound
  • mountain
  • pile
  • stack

Verb

  • bank
  • mound
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Example Sentences

Noun She watched the sun set behind the hills. The house was built at the very top of the hill. Our driveway is a long, steep hill. He came barreling down the hill at 65 miles per hour. The plows came and cleared the streets, forming a hill of snow on the street corner. Verb hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The escalators were designed to follow the natural inclination of the hill slope. CNN, 6 Sep. 2022 The Braemar Royal Highland Gathering features pipe bands, a tug-of-war, hill races and other shows of physical strength and athleticism. Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2022 In less than three years, the company’s streaming service amassed an audience of 221 million, topping longtime king of the streaming hill Netflix. Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022 In the 1960s, Leslie Alcock, an archaeologist at the University of Glasgow, conducted excavations at Cadbury Castle, a Bronze and Iron Age hill fort in England’s Somerset County that had long been identified by Arthurians as being the real Camelot. Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022 Although major details about the upcoming Urus remain under wraps until then, Lamborghini does reveal a few things about the machine that conquered the storied hill-climb course. Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2022 When only the driver is on board, the X4 has no problem scaling a very steep hill section after the transmission is switched to four-wheel drive, which presents the option to lock the differentials—all by just turning a dial in the cockpit. Bill Roberson, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2022 And yes, his baseball cap turned backward, Cora also dove head-first onto the cardboard and sailed down the hill. Dan Gelston, ajc, 21 Aug. 2022 Just down the hill from the birthday party, in his new, shiny blue helmet, the 9-year-old sped along the sidewalk, smiling on his new bike. Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
Verb
Other aggressive turkeys are a common sight in the Oakland hills a few miles east, where some have been known to mix it up with passing bicyclists and hikers. Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020 Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2020 Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2020 Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2020 Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2020 Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2020 Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2020 Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Old English hyll; akin to Latin collis hill, culmen top

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

hill

noun

ˈhil How to pronounce hill (audio)
1
: a usually rounded elevation of land lower than a mountain
2
: a surface that slopes
Our driveway is a long hill.
3
: a heap or mound of something
a hill of snow

Biographical Definition

Hill 1 of 4

biographical name (1)

ˈhil How to pronounce Hill (audio)
Ambrose Powell 1825–1865 American Confederate general

Hill

2 of 4

biographical name (2)

Archibald Vivian 1886–1977 English physiologist

Hill

3 of 4

biographical name (3)

James Jerome 1838–1916 American (Canadian-born) financier

Hill

4 of 4

biographical name (4)

Sir Rowland 1795–1879 English postal reformer

hills 1 of 2

noun

plural of hill
1
as in piles
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another the ants made little hills of dirt

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • piles
  • stacks
  • mountains
  • mounds
  • heaps
  • cocks
  • embankments
  • banks
  • hoards
  • beds
  • layers
  • pyramids
  • drifts
  • ricks
  • collections
  • cairns
  • arrays
  • accumulations
  • barrows
  • bars
  • jumbles
  • assemblages
  • groupings
  • aggregates
  • mows
  • gatherings
  • pyres
  • conglomerations
  • knots
  • pileups
  • huddles
2
as in mountains
an area of high ground a town nestled in a valley surrounded by green hills

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • mountains
  • mounds
  • cliffs
  • highlands
  • knolls
  • uplands
  • elevations
  • crags
  • altitudes
  • bluffs
  • foothills
  • eminences
  • humps
  • ridges
  • prominences
  • heights
  • plateaus
  • alps
  • peaks
  • tablelands
  • mesas
  • rises
  • buttes
  • hillocks
  • precipices
  • plateaux
  • mounts
  • steeps
  • sierras
  • domes
  • hummocks
  • tors
  • tables
  • downs
  • knobs
  • sugarloaves
  • sugarloafs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • valleys
  • lowlands
  • plains
  • hollows
  • dales
  • vales
  • glens
  • depressions
  • flats
  • basins
  • dells
  • bottoms
  • floodplains
  • fens
  • bottomlands
  • dingles
  • tidewaters
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3
as in inclines
an upward slope I got stuck behind a truck going up a hill in a no-passing zone

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • inclines
  • climbs
  • ascents
  • uphills
  • ridges
  • gradients
  • acclivities
  • inclinations
  • uprises
  • rises
  • upgrades
  • diagonals
  • pitches
  • tilts
  • glacis
  • humps
  • rakes
  • mounds
  • leans
  • cants
  • swells
  • grades

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dips
  • declivities
  • falls
  • descents
  • declines
  • hangs
  • downhills
  • hangings
  • hollows
  • basins
  • depressions
  • downgrades
  • declensions
  • drop-offs
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hills

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of hill
as in mounds
to form into a pile or ridge of earth hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • mounds
  • piles
  • banks
  • clumps
  • stacks
  • pyramids
  • lumps
  • heaps
  • groups
  • masses
  • bunches
  • wads
  • gathers
  • accumulates
  • conglomerates
  • bundles
  • collects
  • assembles
  • embanks
  • amasses
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