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

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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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hills

2 of 2

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

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Recent Examples of hills
Noun
The entertaining spaces, including the adjoining living and dining rooms, are framed by large windows that look out on the rolling hills. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026 The area is sparsely populated with private estates set atop hills or within canyons, making firefighting access difficult. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026 The couple and their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, are reportedly living at a private, nonroyal residence in the Cotswolds, a rural area of rolling hills, villages and farms to the west of Oxford. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 Measuring more than 10 feet by 9 feet, Amwan Agwe… (2026), for example, depicts green hills and blue waves alongside the skulls, candles, and fish that nod to Fèt Gede, Haiti’s annual festival honoring the spirits of the dead. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Cornell is located in a rural pocket of the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York, surrounded by hills and country roads. — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 14 Oct. 2026 When an explosion rips through the hills, 35-year-old Nengsal is dug out of the debris having lost a leg. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 The city sits amid the rugged Rif Mountains, where cliffs and steep hills descend toward beaches and intensely blue Mediterranean water. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2026 Scientists found one of these animals a century ago in a rock formation in the hills of Mokattam, southeast of Cairo — the same rock formation that was quarried to build the Sphinx of Giza. — Elijah Wolfson, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hills
  1. piles
  2. mounds
  3. inclines
  4. banks
  5. stacks
  6. mountains
  7. ascents
  8. clumps
Noun
  • The Rest and Relax Inn in Pensacola, Florida, was surrounded by piles of debris after it was stripped of roofing materials during a heavy hit from the hurricane last night.
    — Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Pictures show divers working among piles of ancient pottery, with ceramic plates and bowls scattered across the sandy seabed.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of piles
Noun
  • Bogs tend to keep their secrets low to the ground, where colors shift by inches and boundaries blur in gradients of tiny mounds of moss and sedges emerging from pools.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In 1900, an archaeologist documented 51 Native American mounds at what’s now Casper Bluff Land and Water Reserve, 5 miles outside Galena.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of mounds
Noun
  • Lemmo With this kind of kit, the Lemmo 3 should be up to the task of tackling steep inclines and all manner of rough terrain.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Cows amble in the distance along the inclines of meadows; their grazing helps control invasive plants.
    — Kalpana Mohan, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of inclines
Verb
  • Four minute into the game, Pop Isaacs banks a 3-pointer to put the Aggies ahead 8-4.
    — Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Investment banks Arctic Securities and ABG Sundal Collier have also opened new offices.
    — Jeremy Savory, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of banks
Noun
  • Improvements can even open new uses for electronics Benoit Lessard’s research group at the University of Ottawa is exploring different materials that can serve as the base layer for these conducting stacks, known as thin-film transistors.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • With traditional debt tightening, developers have faced pressure to scale back projects or rethink their capital stacks entirely.
    — Jill Jones, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of stacks
Noun
  • Its elevated setting offers sweeping views across the surrounding countryside towards Gibraltar and, on clear days, the mountains of North Africa.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The first segment of the new season, hosted by Norah O’Donnell, was about a fighter pilot, code-named Bravo, whose plane was shot down over mountains in Iran.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of mountains
Noun
  • The route has seen barefoot ascents, no-hands ascents, and, the clearest indicator of its difficulty, an ascent by a climber wearing roller skates.
    — Brian Laidlaw, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Visit Greece recommends June through October as the most accessible period for climbing; winter ascents require specialized experience and equipment.
    — Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of ascents
Verb
  • Dividing clumps every few years in early spring also maintains their vigor.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
  • Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
    — Allison DeAngelis, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of clumps

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“Hills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hills. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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