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# hilly

«hilly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Having a lot of hills, as in «hilly countryside»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (hilly, hillier, hilliest)

### meaning for a pupil

Having a lot of hills, as in «hilly countryside». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons about landscapes, hilly areas include the Pennines, the Lake District, Wales and much of Ireland and New Zealand. In maths and PE, a hilly route takes longer to run or cycle. In stories, a hilly road might make a journey tiring.

### examples

- Wales is a very hilly country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilly/#x1)
- Cycling home was hard because the road is hilly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilly/#x2)
- The hilly fields were full of sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilly/#x3)
- San Francisco is a famous hilly city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilly/#x4)
- The cross-country course was the hilliest we had run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilly/#x5)
- We walked through hilly woodland on the school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hilly/#x6)

### note

Comparative «hillier», superlative «hilliest». Opposite: «flat». Related: «mountainous» (with mountains).

### Trees and pragmatics

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