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- [hil]
- /hɪl/
- /hɪl/
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- [hil]
- /hɪl/
Definitions of hills word
- noun hills Ambrose Powell [pou-uh l] /ˈpaʊ əl/ (Show IPA), 1825–65, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War. 1
- noun hills Archibald Vivian [viv-ee-uh n] /ˈvɪv i ən/ (Show IPA), 1886–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1922. 1
- noun hills James Jerome, 1838–1916, U.S. railroad builder and financier, born in Canada. 1
- noun hills Joe, 1879–1915, U.S. labor organizer and songwriter, born in Sweden. 1
- verb with object hills to surround with hills: to hill potatoes. 1
- verb with object hills to form into a hill or heap. 1
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Origin of hills
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English; Old English hyll; cognate with Middle Dutch hille, Latin collis hill; compare Latin culmen top, peak (see column, culminate), celsus lofty, very high, Gothic hallus rock, Lithuanian kálnas mountain, Greek kolōnós hill, kolophṓn summit (see colophon)
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Parts of speech for Hills
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
hills popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
hills usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for hills
noun hills
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- fireside — Also called hearthside. the space about a fire or hearth.
- homestead — a town in S Florida.
- home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
Antonyms for hills
noun hills
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- depressions — Plural form of depression.
- canyons — Plural form of canyon.
- ditches — Plural form of ditch.