Definition of Hill

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Definition of Hill

Hill

A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.

A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.

To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.

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Hill Quotations

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein

Hill Translations

hill in Danish is bakke
hill in Dutch is aanaarden
hill in Hungarian is domb, hegy
hill in Italian is collina, pendio, eminenza
hill in Portuguese is monte, colina
hill in Spanish is colina, cerro, cerro
hill in Swedish is kulle, backe

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