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

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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 province of Jijel, 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Algiers, renowned for its fine sandy beaches, turquoise waters and hills of olive trees and fruit trees and cedars, has suffered the greatest damage. — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026

In spite of the growing number of houses springing up all around the BLM land north of Eagle, residents in the area continue to hear gunfire coming from the hills on a daily basis. — Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026

The latest planeload landed last week, four days after armed gangs massacred dozens of people in the hills above Port-au-Prince. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026

Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter Some hills in northern Alabama are burial mounds from the Copena people who lived there 2,000 years ago. — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2026

Spanning 800-square miles and consisting of five counties — Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire — the Cotswolds is known for its rolling hills, golden stone, gardens and storybook towns and villages. — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026

End in the Castelvetro hills at Cleto Chiarli, the family winery founded in 1860, for a tour and tasting devoted to the region’s Lambrusco. — Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Sight lines then become site lines, as many art objects, like the Bateman Mercury, gaze beyond the museum toward Los Angeles, at nearby buildings or the distant surrounding hills. — George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires. — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026