hill

Meanings

Noun

• An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
• A sloping road.
• A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
• A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
• The pitcher’s mound.
• The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

Verb

• To form into a heap or mound.
• To heap or draw earth around plants.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• hillock, toman

Origin

• From Middle English hill, from Old English hyll ("hill"), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz ("hill"), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís ("top, hill, rock") (compare also *halluz). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle, Low German hull ("hill"), Old Norse hóll ("hill"), Latin collis ("hill"), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë ("big pile, tall heap"), Russian холм ("hill"), Old English holm ("rising land, island"). More at holm.