hill
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hill/hɪl/
▶noun a naturally raised area of land, not as high or craggy as a mountain.
■ a heap or mound.
▶verb form into a heap.■ bank up (a plant) with soil.
– phrases
a hill of beans [with neg.] N. Amer. informal something of little importance or value.
over the hill informal old; past one's best.
a hill of beans [with neg.] N. Amer. informal something of little importance or value.
over the hill informal old; past one's best.
– origin OE hyll, of Gmc origin.
'hill' also found in these Oxford entries:
Armageddon
- beacon
- berg
- breast
- brow
- butte
- buttress
- camp
- capitol
- Chin
- cloud
- cloudberry
- colliculus
- Cro-Magnon
- Darjeeling
- dome
- dorsum
- down
- down
- downland
- drumlin
- dun
- dune
- encampment
- escape road
- fell
- fold
- foothill
- Gadarene
- Gond
- hachures
- hanger
- hillbilly
- hill climb
- hill figure
- hill fort
- hillock
- hillside
- hill station
- hilltop
- hogback
- holt
- iceberg
- inselberg
- jebel
- kaolin
- knap
- knob
- knoll
