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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)

  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

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tholus

English

Etymology

From Latin tholus (dome, rotunda).

Noun

tholus (plural tholi)

  1. (astronomy, geology) A small domical mountain or hill.
    Hecates Tholus is a Martian volcano.
  2. A round building, dome, or cupola.
    Synonym: thole

Anagrams

  • hoults

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (thólos).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?t?o.lus/, [?t??????s?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?to.lus/, [?t???lus]

Noun

tholus m (genitive thol?); second declension

  1. dome, cupola, rotunda

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

  • tholus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tholus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tholus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • tholus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • tholus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tholus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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