--- title: H — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 22 description: The 779 words of the English dictionary under H, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / H # H — The English dictionary · page 22 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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[30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/30/) … [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/40/) **hierarchy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A system where people or things are arranged in levels, from the most important or powerful at the top to the least at the bottom.[↗](../../hierarchy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The people in charge of an organisation, such as a church or company.[↗](../../hierarchy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (science, maths) Any ordering of things into levels, like groups inside groups.[↗](../../hierarchy/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* In the feudal hierarchy, the king was at the top.[↗](../../hierarchy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Wolves in a pack have a hierarchy.[↗](../../hierarchy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Living things are sorted in a hierarchy from kingdom to species.[↗](../../hierarchy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The Catholic Church has a hierarchy of bishops and priests.[↗](../../hierarchy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · At school the hierarchy goes from the head teacher to the teachers and assistants.[↗](../../hierarchy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Chickens have a hierarchy called a pecking order.[↗](../../hierarchy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **hieroglyph** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A picture or symbol used for writing, especially in ancient Egypt, where little drawings of birds, eyes and other things stood for sounds or words.[↗](../../hieroglyph/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Writing that is very hard to read.[↗](../../hieroglyph/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Ancient Egyptians wrote with hieroglyphs.[↗](../../hieroglyph/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Rosetta Stone helped scholars read hieroglyphs.[↗](../../hieroglyph/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each hieroglyph can stand for a sound or an idea.[↗](../../hieroglyph/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We wrote our names in hieroglyphs on paper scrolls.[↗](../../hieroglyph/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Hieroglyphs were carved on the walls of tombs.[↗](../../hieroglyph/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother's handwriting looks like hieroglyphs\![↗](../../hieroglyph/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The first of the stories actually written down, were written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, or on Babylonian cakes of clay, three or four thousand years before our time.[↗](../../hieroglyph/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **hieroglyphic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Written in picture signs, as the ancient Egyptians wrote.[↗](../../hieroglyphic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Hard to read, like secret picture writing.[↗](../../hieroglyphic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The tomb had hieroglyphic signs on the wall.[↗](../../hieroglyphic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Hieroglyphic writing uses pictures for sounds and ideas.[↗](../../hieroglyphic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Its markings looked hieroglyphic to me.[↗](../../hieroglyphic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The linear characters in Egypt are earlier than the hieroglyphics, though a few of the forms may ultimately have been fused with the latter.[↗](../../hieroglyphic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../hieroglyphic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Did it spring from the Egyptian liioro- fflyphics, or from the cuneiform systems of the Assyrians, or from the hieroglyphics of the Hittites, or from the Syllabary (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../hieroglyphic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **higgle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old use) To haggle, to argue and bargain over a price.[↗](../../higgle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The traders higgled over the price of the cow.[↗](../../higgle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · They higgled and haggled all morning.[↗](../../higgle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We will not higgle; the price is fixed.[↗](../../higgle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **high** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* High means far up from the ground, or tall: a high wall, a high mountain.[↗](../../high/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* It tells how tall something is: a wall 3 metres high.[↗](../../high/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* High means big in amount or level, like a high price, a high score or a high temperature.[↗](../../high/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A high sound or voice is near the top of the notes, like a whistle.[↗](../../high/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* As a noun, a high is the top amount, like the high temperature of the day.[↗](../../high/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* High can also describe a person or animal of good breeding or noble birth.[↗](../../high/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The wall is 2 metres high.[↗](../../high/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The kite flew 40 metres high.[↗](../../high/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Who got the highest score?[↗](../../high/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The tower is 10 m higher than the house.[↗](../../high/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The cat jumped up high onto the fence.[↗](../../high/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum keeps the medicine on a high shelf.[↗](../../high/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Prices are high at the airport shop.[↗](../../high/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A mouse has a high squeaky voice.[↗](../../high/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Today's high will be 25 degrees.[↗](../../high/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · We gave each other a high five.[↗](../../high/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.[↗](../../high/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.33.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../high/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth; (Torah GEN.14.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../high/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.[↗](../../high/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.3.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../high/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Jonathan upon thy high places is slain\![↗](../../high/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.1.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../high/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · Both low and high, rich and poor together.[↗](../../high/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.49.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../high/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") · And is there knowledge in the Most High?'[↗](../../high/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.73.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../high/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") **higher** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Higher means more high, further up from the ground than something else.[↗](../../higher/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Higher means bigger in number or amount: a higher score, a higher price.[↗](../../higher/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Higher means more important or more advanced: a higher level, higher maths.[↗](../../higher/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A higher sound is a sharper, thinner one, like a whistle.[↗](../../higher/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The tower is 20 metres higher than the house.[↗](../../higher/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Her score was 15 points higher than Tom's.[↗](../../higher/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How much higher is the price this year?[↗](../../higher/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The kite flew higher than the balloon.[↗](../../higher/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The higher you climb up a mountain, the colder it gets.[↗](../../higher/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A short string makes a higher note.[↗](../../higher/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She jumped higher than anyone in the class.[↗](../../higher/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Prices are higher in the city.[↗](../../higher/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The water rose higher and higher.[↗](../../higher/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.[↗](../../higher/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.28.43, JPS 1917)[↗](../../higher/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Water shall flow from his branches, and his seed shall be in many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.[↗](../../higher/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.24.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../higher/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · "Every element has its source from a higher form, and all things have their common origin from the Word (Logos), the Holy Spirit.[↗](../../higher/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../higher/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.[↗](../../higher/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.35.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../higher/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.[↗](../../higher/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.55.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../higher/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.[↗](../../higher/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.10.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../higher/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **highland** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Highland is land that is high up, with hills and mountains.[↗](../../highland/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (a name) The Highlands are the mountainous north and west part of Scotland.[↗](../../highland/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* As an adjective, highland means from or to do with high land, especially the Scottish Highlands.[↗](../../highland/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We went on holiday to the Scottish Highlands.[↗](../../highland/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Highland cows have long shaggy hair and big horns.[↗](../../highland/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · At the Highland games, a man tossed a huge log called a caber.[↗](../../highland/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Highland dancing is done to bagpipe music.[↗](../../highland/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Few people live in the highland areas.[↗](../../highland/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The highlands of Kenya are good for growing tea.[↗](../../highland/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In one of the least intelligible of the West Highland tales, there is a scene which somewhat resembles the "lykewake" in this skazka.[↗](../../highland/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **highlight** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A highlight is the best or most exciting part of something.[↗](../../highlight/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To highlight means to mark words with a bright colour pen so they stand out.[↗](../../highlight/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To highlight means to point out or draw attention to something important.[↗](../../highlight/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Highlights are lighter streaks in hair or bright parts of a picture.[↗](../../highlight/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Highlights are short clips of the best moments of a match or event.[↗](../../highlight/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The highlight of the trip was seeing the whales.[↗](../../highlight/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Highlight the key words in yellow.[↗](../../highlight/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched the match highlights on TV.[↗](../../highlight/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The report highlights the need for more trees.[↗](../../highlight/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She had blonde highlights in her hair.[↗](../../highlight/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Add white highlights to make the apple shine.[↗](../../highlight/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Use a highlighter pen to mark the verbs.[↗](../../highlight/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Meeting the author was the highlight of my week.[↗](../../highlight/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · =Equals signs= are used to highlight changes made in the following passages.[↗](../../highlight/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **highlighter** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pen with bright see-through ink, used to mark important words in a text.[↗](../../highlighter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A make-up product that makes parts of the face look brighter.[↗](../../highlighter/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Use a yellow highlighter to mark the key words.[↗](../../highlighter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My pencil case has five different highlighters.[↗](../../highlighter/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She highlighted the main facts with a pink highlighter.[↗](../../highlighter/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't highlight every line, or nothing stands out.[↗](../../highlighter/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The highlighter ran out of ink halfway through the page.[↗](../../highlighter/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My big sister puts highlighter on her cheeks.[↗](../../highlighter/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **highly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Highly means very or very much: highly dangerous, highly unlikely.[↗](../../highly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Highly means with great respect or praise: «think highly of someone».[↗](../../highly/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Highly means at a high level, rank or amount: highly paid, highly skilled.[↗](../../highly/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* That spray is highly flammable — keep it away from fire.[↗](../../highly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · It is highly unlikely to snow in summer.[↗](../../highly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My teacher thinks highly of your work.[↗](../../highly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I highly recommend this book.[↗](../../highly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Surgeons are highly skilled.[↗](../../highly/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some snakes are highly poisonous.[↗](../../highly/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · It is highly likely we will win.[↗](../../highly/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Everyone speaks highly of the new coach.[↗](../../highly/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.[↗](../../highly/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highly/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.[↗](../../highly/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highly/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../highly/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.[↗](../../highly/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.145.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highly/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, His holy mountain, (Writings PSA.48.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highly/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · For great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.[↗](../../highly/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.96.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highly/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **highness** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A title used to address a prince, princess or other royal person, as in «Your Highness».[↗](../../highness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Your Royal Highness, the feast is ready.[↗](../../highness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · How does your Highness feel today?[↗](../../highness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The page bowed low to His Highness.[↗](../../highness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **highroad** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old use) A main public road for travel, a highway.[↗](../../highroad/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The coach rode along the highroad.[↗](../../highroad/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A wise man should not lie in the middle of the highroad.[↗](../../highroad/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The thief waited by the highroad.[↗](../../highroad/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **highway** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A main road, usually big and fast, that joins towns and cities.[↗](../../highway/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old or formal) Any public road; «the Highway Code» is the UK book of road rules.[↗](../../highway/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We drove along the highway to the beach.[↗](../../highway/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The highway was busy with trucks.[↗](../../highway/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Never cross a highway on foot.[↗](../../highway/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The highway runs right across the country.[↗](../../highway/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Learn the rules in the Highway Code before you ride your bike on the road.[↗](../../highway/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Highway patrol officers stopped the speeding car.[↗](../../highway/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · There was a traffic jam on the highway.[↗](../../highway/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A Rat was traveling along the King's highway.[↗](../../highway/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Let me pass through thy land; I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.[↗](../../highway/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.2.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highway/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.'[↗](../../highway/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.21.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highway/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway.[↗](../../highway/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.20.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highway/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Happy is the man whose strength is in Thee; in whose heart are the highways.[↗](../../highway/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.84.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highway/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers' field.[↗](../../highway/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.36.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../highway/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **highwayman** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In the old days, a robber on horseback who stopped travellers on the road and took their money.[↗](../../highwayman/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The highwayman stopped the coach on the dark road.[↗](../../highwayman/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «Stand and deliver!» cried the highwayman.[↗](../../highwayman/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The poem tells of a highwayman and the landlord's daughter.[↗](../../highwayman/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Travellers were afraid of highwaymen on the lonely heath.[↗](../../highwayman/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The highwayman wore a mask and a three-cornered hat.[↗](../../highwayman/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the play, I was the highwayman.[↗](../../highwayman/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Some highwaymen became famous in songs.[↗](../../highwayman/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **hijab** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A headscarf worn by many Muslim women and girls that covers the hair and neck, leaving the face open.[↗](../../hijab/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (wider) The idea in Islam of dressing modestly.[↗](../../hijab/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My friend Amira wears a blue hijab to school.[↗](../../hijab/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She pins her hijab neatly every morning.[↗](../../hijab/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Some football players wear sports hijabs.[↗](../../hijab/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The school sells hijabs in the uniform colour.[↗](../../hijab/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Her hijab matched her dress.[↗](../../hijab/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In RE we learned why some Muslim women wear the hijab.[↗](../../hijab/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She chose to start wearing a hijab when she was older.[↗](../../hijab/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **hike** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A hike is a long walk, often in hills, woods or mountains, done for fun or exercise.[↗](../../hike/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To hike is to go on such a walk.[↗](../../hike/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A hike is also a big sudden rise, like a price hike.[↗](../../hike/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To hike up something is to pull it up, like hiking up your socks.[↗](../../hike/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* They hike 6 miles on Saturday.[↗](../../hike/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The hike is 12 km long.[↗](../../hike/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She hikes 3 miles each day for 5 days.[↗](../../hike/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How long did the hike take?[↗](../../hike/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class went on a nature hike to the waterfall.[↗](../../hike/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Always tell an adult where you are hiking and take water.[↗](../../hike/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We hiked up the hill and ate lunch at the top.[↗](../../hike/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The bus company announced a fare hike of 50 cents.[↗](../../hike/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · He hiked up his shorts before crossing the stream.[↗](../../hike/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **hiker** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A hiker is a person who goes on long walks in the country, hills or mountains, for fun or exercise.[↗](../../hiker/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* 15 hikers start up the hill.[↗](../../hiker/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Each hiker carries 2 bottles of water.[↗](../../hiker/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The hiker walks 3 miles an hour.[↗](../../hiker/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · 4 hikers turn back.[↗](../../hiker/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The hikers stopped to look at the view.[↗](../../hiker/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A lost hiker was found by the rescue team.[↗](../../hiker/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Hikers should stay on the path and not feed the animals.[↗](../../hiker/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The hiker checked her map at the fork in the trail.[↗](../../hiker/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **hilarious** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Extremely funny, making you laugh a lot: a hilarious joke.[↗](../../hilarious/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The clown was hilarious.[↗](../../hilarious/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched a hilarious film and couldn't stop laughing.[↗](../../hilarious/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother told a hilarious joke at dinner.[↗](../../hilarious/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «Oh, hilarious,» she said, when he hid her bag — she was not laughing.[↗](../../hilarious/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog's tricks were hilarious.[↗](../../hilarious/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It was hilarious when the cake slid off the plate.[↗](../../hilarious/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) … [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/20/) [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/21/) **22** [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/23/) … [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/30/) … [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/40/) - ← 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