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/hɪl/ · hil
noun
- An elevated location smaller than a mountain. The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.
- A sloping road. You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
- A heap of earth surrounding a plant. The gardener carefully built a hill of soil around the newly planted tree.
verb
- To form into a heap or mound. The children spent the afternoon building hills with sand on the beach.
- To heap or draw earth around plants. The farmer used a shovel to hill the potatoes in the garden.
Did you know? The word 'hill' has been used in various forms of literature, including in the works of William Wordsworth, who wrote about the beauty of hills in his poem 'The Prelude'.