1
as in piles
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
the ants made little hills of dirt
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2
as in mounds
an area of high ground
a town nestled in a valley surrounded by green hills
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3
as in inclines
an upward slope
I got stuck behind a truck going up a hill in a no-passing zone
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as in banks
to form into a pile or ridge of earth
hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze
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Recent Examples of hills
Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Chef Enrico Crippa’s dishes are celebrations of the rolling hills of the Piedmont region and his love for herbs, flowers, and vegetables.
—Jamila Robinson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Sep. 2025
Electric bicycles are growing in popularity, minimizing hills and headwinds, and making riding more appealing for many people.
—Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The hills of this part of Northeast Italy are the heartland of many other types of wines.
—Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The abolitionists Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown were born here; Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Stephen Sondheim, and the film director Milos Forman made homes among these softly rolling hills.
—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
It is written and directed by Evans, also deaf, and features an all-deaf cast, set atop the rolling hills of the English countryside in a quaint stately home.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Under the guidance of world champion Judi Oyama, Kahaku found her stride running cones down hills and fell in love with the discipline.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
On the screen were images of rolling hills, deer frolicking in the forest, and waves crashing on the shore.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Chef Enrico Crippa’s dishes are celebrations of the rolling hills of the Piedmont region and his love for herbs, flowers, and vegetables.
—Jamila Robinson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Sep. 2025
Electric bicycles are growing in popularity, minimizing hills and headwinds, and making riding more appealing for many people.
—Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The hills of this part of Northeast Italy are the heartland of many other types of wines.
—Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The abolitionists Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown were born here; Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Stephen Sondheim, and the film director Milos Forman made homes among these softly rolling hills.
—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
It is written and directed by Evans, also deaf, and features an all-deaf cast, set atop the rolling hills of the English countryside in a quaint stately home.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Under the guidance of world champion Judi Oyama, Kahaku found her stride running cones down hills and fell in love with the discipline.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hills
Noun
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Use jig and pigs 18 to 25 feet deep along brush piles or main lake points with a gradual slope.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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One makes big plays at big moments, the other piles up a steady stream of little plays that lead to those big plays.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There are mounds of commentary on Marlowe—historical, biographical, critical, and wildly fantastical—and all sorts of reasons to add to the heap.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Summer's berry bounties and mounds of melons are fleeting.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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They are most commonly used to transport people and cargo up steep inclines.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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To them, bank lending has multiplicative qualities whereby Bank A rents $100,000 from a saver, lends out $90,000 to a borrower who then banks the money at Bank B, only for Bank B to lend out $81,000, only for the borrower to bank the $81,000 at Bank C that lends out $72,900.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Cadence has tools for data center design as well as its traditional semiconductor design and in semiconductors their tools can also work with 3D stacks of die and include Multiphysics digital twin simulation.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Tyla had aptly worn stacks of the jewelry on the VMAs carpet the night before, along with a Chanel minidress.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Having breathed in the fresh air of the mountains, affirmed his love for his girlfriend, and taken in the beautiful view, Daniel all but forgets about his fight with his mother.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Here at Lake Garda, guests of Grand Hotel Fasano can indulge in water skiing, windsurfing or paddleboarding on calm waters, while also hiking or biking through the mountains that surround the lake.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This three-day program moves on to teaching more advanced techniques, like left-foot braking, handling ascents and descents, and weight transfer.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
9 Sep. 2025
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Human sequences depicted various runs and also ascents, descents, lifts, throws, wrestling, dances, a child crawling, and a woman pouring a bucket of water over another woman.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 May 2019
Verb
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The alum then clumps the smaller, suspended fats together for easy removal.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Hills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hills. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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