Synonyms of hills

hills 1 of 2

noun

plural of hill

1

as in piles

a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another

the ants made little hills of dirt

Synonyms & Similar Words

• piles
• stacks
• mountains
• mounds
• heaps
• cocks
• banks
• embankments
• layers
• hoards
• beds
• drifts
• pyramids
• collections
• arrays
• accumulations
• bars
• assemblages
• groupings
• jumbles
• barrows
• aggregates
• ricks
• cairns
• gatherings
• mows
• pyres
• knots
• conglomerations
• pileups
• huddles

2

as in mounds

an area of high ground

a town nestled in a valley surrounded by green hills

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mounds
• mountains
• cliffs
• highlands
• uplands
• elevations
• knolls
• altitudes
• crags
• eminences
• bluffs
• prominences
• foothills
• humps
• heights
• ridges
• plateaus
• peaks
• rises
• mesas
• tablelands
• mounts
• buttes
• precipices
• alps
• domes
• hillocks
• steeps
• tors
• sierras
• tables
• hummocks
• downs
• knobs
• sugarloafs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lowlands
• valleys
• hollows
• depressions
• plains
• dales
• vales
• glens
• flats
• basins
• dells
• bottoms
• floodplains
• fens
• bottomlands
• dingles
• tidewaters

3

as in inclines

an upward slope

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• inclines
• ascents
• climbs
• gradients
• inclinations
• uphills
• ridges
• acclivities
• upgrades
• rises
• uprises
• diagonals
• glacis
• pitches
• rakes
• tilts
• cants
• humps
• mounds
• leans
• swells
• grades

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• falls
• dips
• hangs
• declines
• descents
• hangings
• basins
• declivities
• downgrades
• hollows
• downhills
• depressions
• declensions
• drop-offs

hills

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of hill

as in banks

to form into a pile or ridge of earth

hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mounds
• piles
• banks
• clumps
• stacks
• lumps
• pyramids
• heaps
• masses
• groups
• gathers
• bunches
• accumulates
• wads
• collects
• assembles
• conglomerates
• bundles
• embanks
• amasses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hills

Noun

The entertaining spaces, including the adjoining living and dining rooms, are framed by large windows that look out on the rolling hills. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026

The area is sparsely populated with private estates set atop hills or within canyons, making firefighting access difficult. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

The couple and their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, are reportedly living at a private, nonroyal residence in the Cotswolds, a rural area of rolling hills, villages and farms to the west of Oxford. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Measuring more than 10 feet by 9 feet, Amwan Agwe… (2026), for example, depicts green hills and blue waves alongside the skulls, candles, and fish that nod to Fèt Gede, Haiti’s annual festival honoring the spirits of the dead. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Cornell is located in a rural pocket of the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York, surrounded by hills and country roads. — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 14 Oct. 2026

When an explosion rips through the hills, 35-year-old Nengsal is dug out of the debris having lost a leg. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

The city sits amid the rugged Rif Mountains, where cliffs and steep hills descend toward beaches and intensely blue Mediterranean water. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Scientists found one of these animals a century ago in a rock formation in the hills of Mokattam, southeast of Cairo — the same rock formation that was quarried to build the Sphinx of Giza. — Elijah Wolfson, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026