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Definition of hill:
- A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
- A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.
- The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [ U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
- To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.
Synonyms:
upland, tumble, rise, gradient, prominence, hillock, hammock, downgrade, ridge, acclivity, slant, hilltop, downs, stack, cumulus, mass, descent, high, declivity, vantage point, pitch, Alfred Hawthorne, height, incline, ascent, knap, cliff, slope, congress, climb, j. j. hill, down, pitcher, kop, Benny Hill, eminence, spine, eminence, mess, drift, assembly, hillside, Acropolis, rising ground, elevation, grade, barrow, butte, helicline, talus, cumulation, foothill, monadnock, promontory, steep, highlands, city hall, bluff, swell, highland, mesa, protuberance, foothills, knoll, James Jerome Hill, Capitol Hill, upgrade, esker, rise, summit, pitcher's mound, tumulus, cabinet, hold, bureaucracy, inclination, city council, pile, mound, chine, fell, lump, dune, bank, hummock, tor, caucus, heap, order, shock, agglomerate, agglomeration, apparatus, precipice, headland.
Usage examples:
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All the passengers got out and walked up the hill.
- "A Boy's Voyage Round the World", The Son of Samuel Smiles. -
We walk up the hill nearly every day after lunch.
- "The Green Carnation", Robert Smythe Hichens. -
He came running down the hill asking for you, and I gave him the letter.
- "Benita, An African Romance", H. Rider Haggard.