Tra từ hill - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

hill [hill hills hilled hilling] BrE [hɪl] NAmE [hɪl] noun
1. countable an area of land that is higher than the land around it, but not as high as a mountain
•a region of gently rolling hills
•a hill farm/town/fort
• The house is built on the side of a hill overlooking the river.
• I love walking in the hills (= in the area where there are hills).

see also ↑anthill, ↑foothill, ↑molehill
2. countable a slope on a road
• Always take care when driving down steep hills.
•a hill start (= the act of starting a vehicle on a slope)
see also ↑downhill, ↑uphill
3. the Hillsingular (NAmE, informal) = ↑Capitol Hill
more at as old as the hills at ↑old
Idioms: ↑hill of beans ▪ ↑over the hill

Word Origin:
Old English hyll, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin collis and Greek kolōnos ‘hill’.

Thesaurus:
hill noun C
•I love walking in the hills.
mountain • • fell • • highlands • • foothills • • mound • |especially BrE moor •
Opp: valley
on a hill/a mountain/the fells/a mound/the moors
in the hills/mountains/fells/highlands/foothills
climb a hill/mountain/fell

Example Bank:
•A few yards up the hill, on the left, was a turning.
•A grassy path led down the hill.
•A spring emerges at the bottom of the hill.
•In the heat of summer the rich fled to the hill stations.
•Olive groves cover the hills.
•Over the hill lies another town.
•The bus sped down the long hill.
•The church is perched on a hill.
•The landscape is made up of low, rolling hills.
•The town is set on a small hill.
•There are several lead mines in the hills above Grassington.
•They climbed a steep hill and came to the town.
•They crested a small hill and then the path curved.
•Troops forced villagers to flee to the surrounding hills.
•We took to the hills in a variety of four-wheel-drive vehicles.
•Wooded hills rise behind the town.
•a hill overlooking the wide valley below
•the chalk hills of southern England
•the distant blue hills
•the houses which dotted the hill
•the limestone hills of Kentucky
•Always take care when driving down steep hills.
•I had to do a hill start.
•I love walking in the hills.
•a hill farm/town/fort