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- 1 Capitol Hill; the US Congress US, with-definite-article
- 2 Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country Canada, with-definite-article
- 3 A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill.
"Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif."
- 4 A number of places:; A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
- 5 A number of places:; A town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
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- 6 A number of places:; A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6495).
- 7 A number of places:; A hamlet in Leamington Hastings parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4567).
- 8 A number of places:; A suburb near Four Oaks, City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1199).
- 9 A number of places:; A former township in Halesowen, West Midlands, which later became Hill and Cakemore.
- 10 A number of places:; A village in Saundersfoot community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1206).
- 1 An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
"The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east."
- 2 structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones wordnet
- 3 A sloping road.
"You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up."
- 4 (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands wordnet
- 5 A heap of earth surrounding a plant. US
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- 6 a local and well-defined elevation of the land wordnet
- 7 A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them. US
"a hill of corn or potatoes"
- 8 The pitcher’s mound.
- 9 The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
- 1 To form into a heap or mound.
"Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;"
- 2 form into a hill wordnet
- 3 To heap or draw earth around plants.
"After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound."
Etymology
From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, 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 холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, 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 холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
* As an English surname, from the noun hill, shortened from Hilary, and from Old English hild (“battle”). * As a German surname, shortened from Hildebrand, related to the last sense above. * As a Finnish surname, calque of Finnish Mäki (“hill”).
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