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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
hill From the web:
- what hill was jesus crucified on
- what hill did jesus die on
- what hill was rome founded on
- what hill was bunker hill fought on
- what hill are you willing to die on
- what hill is the hollywood sign on
- what hill was hamburger hill
- what hill number was hamburger hill
knowe
English
Etymology 1
Noun
knowe (plural knowes)
- (chiefly Scotland and Ulster) A small hill; a knoll.
Etymology 2
Verb
knowe
- Obsolete spelling of know
Anagrams
- Keown, woken
Middle English
Verb
knowe
- Alternative form of knowen
Scots
Etymology
From Old English cnoll (“summit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [n?u], [kn?u]
- (Mid Northern Scots) IPA(key): [tn?u]
Noun
knowe (plural knowes)
- knoll, hillock, hillside, field head
knowe From the web:
- what knowest thou meaning
- what knoweth meaning
- knocked means
- knower meaning
- knower what's in your heart
- knower what's in your heart lyrics
- what man knoweth the things of a man
- what is knower gaze in education
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