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hill

  [hil]
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–noun
1. a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
2. an incline, esp. 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. the plant or plants so surrounded: a hill of potatoes.
6. Baseball. mound 1 (def. 4).
7. the Hill. Capitol Hill.
–verb (used with object)
8. to surround with hills: to hill potatoes.
9. to form into a hill or heap.
—Idioms
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:
bef. 1000; ME; OE hyll; c. MD hille, L collis hill; cf. L culmen top, peak (see column, culminate ), celsus lofty, very high, Goth hallus rock, Lith kálnas mountain, Gk kolōnós hill, kolophn summit (see colophon )

Related forms:
hiller, noun

Synonyms:
1. eminence, prominence; mound, knoll, hillock; foothill.

Antonyms:
1. hollow, valley.

Hill

  [hil]
–noun
1. Ambrose Pow⋅ell  [pou-uhl] , 1825–65, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
2. Archibald Viv⋅i⋅an  [viv-ee-uhn] , 1886–1977, English physiologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1922.
3. James Jerome, 1838–1916, U.S. railroad builder and financier, born in Canada.
4. Joe, 1879–1915, U.S. labor organizer and songwriter, born in Sweden.

Capitol Hill

 
–noun
1. the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
2. Informal. the U.S. Congress.
Also called the Hill.
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hill   (hĭl)   
n.  
  1. A well-defined natural elevation smaller than a mountain.
  2. A small heap, pile, or mound.
    1. A mound of earth piled around and over a plant.
    2. A plant thus covered.
    3. Capitol Hill. Often used with the.
    4. The U.S. Congress. Often used with the.
  4. An incline, especially of a road; a slope.
  5. Hill
    1. Capitol Hill. Often used with the.
    2. The U.S. Congress. Often used with the.
tr.v.   hilled, hill·ing, hills
  1. To form into a hill, pile, or heap.
  2. To cover (a plant) with a mound of soil.

[Middle English hil, from Old English hyll; see kel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
hill'er n.
Hill, Ambrose Powell 1825-1865.  
American Confederate officer active in the Seven Days' Battle, the Second Battle of Bull Run, and the Battle of Antietam (all 1862). Units under his command began the Battle of Gettysburg (1863).
Hill, James J   (erome)
American railroad magnate who promoted the Great Northern Railway and with J.P. Morgan gained control of the Northern Pacific Railroad in a stock market struggle that provoked the Panic of 1901.
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Hill

Hill\, n. [OE. hil, hul, AS. hyll; akin to OD. hille, hil, L. collis, and prob. to E. haulm, holm, and column. Cf. 2d Holm.]

1. 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.

Every mountain and hill shall be made low. --Is. xl. 4.

2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.

3. 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. [U. S.]

Hill ant (Zo["o]l.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests.

Hill myna (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of birds of India, of the genus Gracula, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also hill mynah.] See Myna.

Hill partridge (Zo["o]l.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies.

Hill tit (Zo["o]l.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family Leiotrichid[ae]. Many are beautifully colored.

Hill

Hill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hilling.] To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.

Showing them how to plant and hill it. --Palfrey.
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Language Translation for : hill
Spanish: colina,
German: die Anhöhe,
Japanese: 丘
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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 object," 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.
"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]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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Hill

(1.) Heb. gib'eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common to Palestine (Ps. 65:12; 72:3; 114:4, 6). (2.) Heb. har, properly a mountain range rather than an individual eminence (Ex. 24:4, 12, 13, 18; Num. 14:40, 44, 45). In Deut. 1:7, Josh. 9:1; 10:40; 11:16, it denotes the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, which forms the watershed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. (3.) Heb. ma'aleh in 1 Sam. 9:11. Authorized Version "hill" is correctly rendered in the Revised Version "ascent." (4.) In Luke 9:37 the "hill" is the Mount of Transfiguration.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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hill

see downhill all the way; go downhill; head for (the hills); make a mountain out of a molehill; not worth a dime (hill of beans); old as Adam (the hills); over the hill.

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