Meaning of hill in English

hill

noun [ C ]

/hɪl/ us

/hɪl/

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an area of land that is higher than the surrounding land:

Hills are not as high as mountains.

Their house is on the top of a hill.

the hills In the summer, the shepherds move their sheep up into the hills (= an area where there are hills).

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a slope in a road:

That hill's far too steep to cycle up.

the Hill US

Capitol Hill (= the US legislature or the place where it meets)

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It was a long climb to the top of the hill, but it was worth it for the view from the top.
The castle is set on a steep hill.
The bicycle gathered speed as it went down the hill.
When you're walking in the hills the weather can change very quickly, so take suitable clothing.
We could see a low range of hills in the distance.

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over the hill

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hill

noun [ C ]

/hɪl/

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an area of land that slopes up to a point higher than the surrounding land and then slopes down again, but which is smaller than a mountain:

They built a house on the top of a hill, overlooking the town.

The highway runs through rolling hills (= land that gradually slopes up and down).

the Hill infml

The Hill is Capitol Hill.

hilly

adjective us

/ˈhɪl·i/

The plane crashed in a hilly, heavily wooded area.

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Examples of hill

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The contract left the ravines and hills + a substantial and growing part of the city + for later.

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The landscape is a succession of small hills, between 60-120 m asl.

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The soils are oxisols on the hills with brown or gray alluvial covers in the bottomland.

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The horst, a steep-sided escarpment, the crest of which has been transformed through weathering into tall, conical hills and deep depressions, falls sharply to the lagoon's southern border.

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Because canals with locks lose a lot of water, the canal between the two seas is kept topped up from lochs high up in the hills away to the south.

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The impact is beneficial for stability since yield loss on account of any missing plants is better compensated by the plants surrounding the unoccupied hills in the field.

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Four video clips were selected from the programme, each depicting a single, highly familiar object moving continuously against a colourful background of green, flower-covered hills and a cloud-filled sky.

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Whereas earlier public meetings had been held at various hills on the fields, the bigger protests were carefully placed upon an appropriate rising directly opposite the government camp.*!

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Spatial and temporal distribution of soil inorganic nitrogen concentration in potato hills.

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Several spurs of hills run west- east from the main upland massif, increasing local topographical complexity by more or less dividing the lowlands into a series of semi-enclosed coastal basins.

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Apart from the sharp elevation of the high-energy complex, the cluster is composed of five medium-high hills, two of them being endowed with a rather broad base.

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Above the escarpment the terrain is marked by karstic hills, 40 - 60 m high, with elevations in the range of 180 -200 m above sea level.

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The school also eradicated their memory of the hills in which they wandered about earlier and thereby ensured that they did not cherish the wild notions.

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The eect of this technology on tuber yields in the terai and the hills was estimated by comparing on-farm yields of crops grown from basic and traditional seed.

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Patrolling of hills was assigned to it.

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castle hill

The castle hill, which is accessible again, shows little sign that it once hosted a castle.

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forested hill

The ruins of the castle are situated on a widely visible forested hill 422m ft above sea level.

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gentle hill

Preferable conditions for cave formation are adequate precipitation, enough plants and animals to produce ample carbon dioxide, and a landscape of gentle hills which drains slowly.

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小山，丘陵, （路的）斜坡…

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