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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   (of a road, track or other path) passing along the foot of a hill.

   "There's an underhill lane you can walk along there."

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   A town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. countable, uncountable
3. 3
   A town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. countable, uncountable
4. 4
   A neighbourhood of Barnet, borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2595). countable, uncountable
5. 5
   A hamlet in East Knoyle parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8730). countable, uncountable

Example

More examples

"There's an underhill lane you can walk along there."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From under- + hill.

Etymology 2

From under + hill, a topographic surname for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.