noun
hill
hih
noun
1
A raised area of land, smaller and less steep than a mountain.
"The village sits at the foot of a gentle hill."
2
A sloping section of road.
"The truck struggled to climb the steep hill."
3
(baseball) The pitcher's mound.
"He took the hill for his first start of the season."
verb
1
To pile earth around the base of a plant.
"Gardeners hill the soil around potato plants as they grow."
How to Use Hill
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA small raised landform, or, informally, a slope; also baseball slang for the pitcher's mound.
Common pairings
over the hill
up the hill
the pitcher's hill
Word Forms
hilled past tense, hills plural, hills singular
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Etymology
From Old English hyll, tracing back through Proto-Germanic to a very old Indo-European root meaning "top" or "rock" — related to the word "holm."