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hill
English
Etymology
From Middle English hill, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?Hnís (“top, hill, rock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian ???? (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?l, IPA(key): /h?l/, [h??]
- Rhymes: -?l
- Homophone: heel (in some dialects)
Noun
hill (plural hills)
- An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- A sloping road.
- (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
- (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
- (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
- The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
- Antonym: dale
Hyponyms
- (elevation): hillock, toman (smaller hills)
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- hill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
hill (third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled)
- To form into a heap or mound.
- To heap or draw earth around plants.
Translations
Westrobothnian
Etymology
Cognate with Icelandic hilla, Swedish hylla.
Noun
hill f (definite singular hilla)
- shelf
Synonyms
- fjahl
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drumlin
English
Etymology
Irish droim 'back, ridge' + English dim. suffix -lin (variant of -ling)
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): [?d??ml?n]
- Hyphenation: drum?lin
Noun
drumlin (plural drumlins)
- (geography) An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French drumlin
Noun
drumlin n (plural drumline)
- drumlin
Declension
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