Hill Definition
A topographic surname for someone who lived on or by a hill.
To cover with a hill.
- Past one's prime.
Other Word Forms of Hill
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hill
- over the hill
- over the hill
- the Hill
Origin of Hill
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From Middle English, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kolən-, *koləm- (“top, hill, rock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Icelandic hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English hil from Old English hyll kel-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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