heap

Meanings

Noun

• A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
• A great number or large quantity of things.
• A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
• Memory that is dynamically allocated.
• A dilapidated place or vehicle.
• A lot, a large amount

Verb

• To pile in a heap.
• To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
• To supply in great quantity.

Adverb

• Very.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• compost heap

Origin

• From Middle English heep, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos ("hill") (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi ("stack"), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀).