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noun
1.
a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
2.
an incline, especially in a road: This old jalopy won't make it up the next hill.
3.
an artificial heap, pile, or mound: a hill made by ants.
4.
a small mound of earth raised about a cultivated plant or a cluster of such plants.
5.
EXPANDthe plant or plants so surrounded: a hill of potatoes.
verb (used with object)
8.
to surround with hills: to hill potatoes.
9.
to form into a hill or heap.
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Hilling
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10.
go over the hill, Slang.
a.
to break out of prison.
b.
to absent oneself without leave from one's military unit.
c.
to leave suddenly or mysteriously: Rumor has it that her husband has gone over the hill.
11.
over the hill,
a.
relatively advanced in age.
b.
past one's prime.
Origin:
before 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, kolophṓn summit (see colophon)
before 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, kolophṓn summit (see colophon)
Related forms
hill·er, noun
un·der·hill, noun
Synonyms
1. eminence, prominence; mound, knoll, hillock; foothill.
1. eminence, prominence; mound, knoll, hillock; foothill.
Antonyms
1. hollow, valley.
1. hollow, valley.
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Word Origin & History
hill
O.E. hyll, from P.Gmc. *khulnis (cf. M.Du. hille, Low Ger. hull "hill," O.N. hallr "stone," Goth. hallus "rock," O.N. holmr "islet in a bay," O.E. holm "rising land, island"), from PIE base *kel- "to rise, be elevated, to be prominent" (cf. Skt. kutam "top, skull;" L. collis "hill," columna "projecting
EXPANDobject," culmen "top, summit," cellere "raise," celsus "high;" Gk. kolonos "hill," kolophon "summit;" Lith. kalnas "mountain," kalnelis "hill," kelti "raise"). Formerly including mountains, now usually confined to heights under 2,000 feet. Hillock (1382) preserves M.E. dim. suffix -oc. Phrase over the hill "past one's prime" is first recorded 1950.
COLLAPSE
"In Great Britain heights under 2,000 feet are generally called hills; 'mountain' being confined to the greater elevations of the Lake District, of North Wales, and of the Scottish Highlands; but, in India, ranges of 5,000 and even 10,000 feet are commonly called 'hills,' in contrast with the Himalaya Mountains, many peaks of which rise beyond 20,000 feet." [OED]
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Medical Dictionary
Hill (hĭl), Archibald Vivian. 1886-1977.
British physiologist. He shared a 1922 Nobel Prize for his investigation of heat production in muscles and nerves.
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