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# hill

«hill» in Mova's school dictionary: **high ground, lower than a mountain, with sloping sides** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (hill, hills)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hill is high ground, lower than a mountain, with sloping sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#m1)

2) A hill is also a slope on a road or path: «ride your bike up the hill». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a climb with height or distance; time up and down; in geography: hills and valleys on a map, contour lines; in everyday life: sledging down a hill in winter, rolling down a grassy hill; in stories: a castle on a hill; phrases: «up the hill», «downhill», «over the hill» (getting old, joking)

### examples

- The hill is 200 m high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x1)
- They climb the hill in 30 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x2)
- It takes 10 minutes to go down the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x3)
- How long was the trip up and down? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x4)
- We went sledging down the hill after the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x5)
- Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x6)
- The castle stands on top of a hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x7)
- Cycling uphill is harder than cycling downhill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x8)
- From the hill we could see the whole town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x9)
- Must I go up hill or down? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/#x10)

### note

Height or distance; up and down times add (30 + 10 = 40 minutes). Going down is usually faster than going up. A mountain is higher than a hill. «Uphill», «downhill» are one word.

### In the corpora

- [In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/14/)
- [Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/2/)
- ["Over the hill" is a joking way to say past one's best because of age.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/23/)
- [Keep away from ant hills and never sit on them, because fire ants in parts of the USA and Australia sting many times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/12/)
- [You walk a scooter down a steep hill, because you can lose control.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.