different between hill vs holler

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)

1. 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.

2. A sloping road.

3. (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
4. (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

5. (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
6. 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)

1. To form into a heap or mound.
2. To heap or draw earth around plants.

Translations

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Cognate with Icelandic hilla, Swedish hylla.

Noun

hill f (definite singular hilla)

1. shelf

Synonyms

• fjahl

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?.l??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?.l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)
• Homophone: hauler (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

American variant of holla, hallo or hollo.

Noun

holler (plural hollers)

1. A yell, shout.

   I heard a holler from over the fence.

2. By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention.

   If you need anything, just give me a holler.

Synonyms

• hollering
• cry, outcry
• howl
• hurl
• scream
• shout

Translations

Verb

holler (third-person singular simple present hollers, present participle hollering, simple past and past participle hollered)

1. (intransitive) To yell or shout.

   You can holler at your computer as much as you want, but it won't help anything.

2. (transitive) To call out one or more words
3. To complain, gripe

Synonyms

• shout
• See also Thesaurus:shout
• See also Thesaurus:complain

Translations

Etymology 2

Variation of hollow.

Noun

holler (plural hollers)

1. (Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow (small valley between mountains).

Adjective

holler (not comparable)

1. (dialectal, especially Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow.

   the holler tree

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

holler c (plural hollers, diminutive hollertje n)

1. A (hurried) runner

Synonyms

• loper m
• renner m

Adjective

holler

1. Comparative form of hol