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hill

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hill

1 a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another

  • the ants made little hills of dirt
Synonyms of hill

cock, heap, mound, mountain, pile, stack
Words Related to hill

bank, bar, drift, embankment

bed, layer

mow, pyramid, rick

barrow, cairn, pyre

accumulation, aggregate, array, assemblage, collection, conglomeration, gathering, grouping, hoard, huddle, jumble, knot, pileup

2 an area of high ground

  • a town nestled in a valley surrounded by green hills
Synonyms of hill

altitude(s), elevation, eminence, height, highland, hump, mound, prominence, rise, upland
Words Related to hill

alp, mount, mountain, peak

butte, mesa, plateau, table, tableland

bluff, cliff, crag, precipice, steep, tor

ridge, sierra

dome, sugarloaf

foothill, hillock, hummock, knob, knoll

downs
Near Antonyms of hill

dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, hollow, vale, valley

basin, bottom, bottomland, fen, flat, floodplain, plain, tidewater
Antonyms of hill

lowland

3 an upward slope

  • I got stuck behind a truck going up a hill in a no-passing zone
Synonyms of hill

acclivity, ascent, rise, upgrade, uphill, uprise
Words Related to hill

cant, diagonal, glacis, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, pitch, rake, tilt

climb, hump, mound, ridge, swell
Near Antonyms of hill

basin, depression, hollow
Antonyms of hill

declension, decline, declivity, descent, dip, downgrade, downhill, drop-off, fall, hang, hanging

hill

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of hill

to form into a pile or ridge of earth

  • hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze
Synonyms of hill

bank, mound
Words Related to hill

heap, pile, pyramid, stack

embank

bunch, bundle, clump, lump, mass, wad

accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, conglomerate, gather, group

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