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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024hill /hɪl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Geographya natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain:They learned to ski on a small hill.
- an incline;
slope:a slight hill at the end of the street. - an artificial heap, pile, or mound:a hill of trash.
Idioms- Idioms over the hill, advanced in age or no longer at one's best in performance:a football player over the hill at 35 years of age.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Hil•ler (hil′ər),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical Dame Wendy, born 1912, British actress.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hill (hil),USA pronunciation n. - Geographya natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
- an incline, esp. in a road:This old jalopy won't make it up the next hill.
- an artificial heap, pile, or mound:a hill made by ants.
- Botanya small mound of earth raised about a cultivated plant or a cluster of such plants.
- Botanythe plant or plants so surrounded:a hill of potatoes.
- Sport[Baseball.]mound1 (def. 4).
- Idioms 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:Rumor has it that her husband has gone over the hill.
- Idioms over the hill:
- relatively advanced in age.
- past one's prime.
- Government the Hill. See Capitol Hill.
v.t. - to surround with hills:to hill potatoes.
- to form into a hill or heap.
- bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English hyll; cognate with Middle Dutch hille, Latin collis hill; compare Latin culmen top, peak (see column, culminate), celsus lofty, very high, Gothic hallus rock, Lithuanian kálnas mountain, Greek kolōnós hill, kolophó̄n summit (see colophon)
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged eminence, prominence; mound, knoll, hillock; foothill.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hollow, valley.
Hill (hil),USA pronunciation n. Ambrose Pow•ell (pou′əl),USA pronunciation 1825–65, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.Archibald Viv•i•an (viv′ē ən),USA pronunciation 1886–1977, English physiologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1922.- Biographical James Jerome, 1838–1916, U.S. railroad builder and financier, born in Canada.
- Biographical Joe, 1879–1915, U.S. labor organizer and songwriter, born in Sweden.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Hiller /ˈhɪlə/ n - Dame Wendy. 1912–2003, British actress. Her many films include Pygmalion (1938), Major Barbara (1940), and Separate Tables (1958)
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