adj
Meaning 1
Abundant in hills; having many hills.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hilly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈhɪli/
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rhymes with -ɪli
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CMU ARPABET: HH IH1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
having hills and crags
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hilly terrain
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cragged, craggy, mountainous
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English hilly, hylly, hully, equivalent to hill + -y.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Assamese: পাহাৰীয়া (paharia) — abounding in hills
- Belarusian: паго́рысты (pahórysty) — abounding in hills
- Belarusian: узо́ркаваты (uzórkavaty) — abounding in hills
- Belarusian: узго́рысты (uzhórysty) — abounding in hills
- Bulgarian: хълми́ст (hǎlmíst) — abounding in hills
- Bulgarian: хъ́лмест (hǎ́lmest) — abounding in hills
- Catalan: muntanyós — abounding in hills
- Czech: kopcovitý — abounding in hills
- Czech: pahorkatý — abounding in hills
- Dutch: heuvelachtig — abounding in hills
- Finnish: mäkinen — abounding in hills
- Finnish: kukkulainen — abounding in hills
- French: vallonné — abounding in hills
- German: hügelig — abounding in hills
- Greek: λοφώδης (lofódis) — abounding in hills
- Ancient Greek: λοφώδης (lophṓdēs) — abounding in hills
- Hungarian: dombos — abounding in hills
- Hungarian: dimbes-dombos — abounding in hills
- Icelandic: hæðóttur — abounding in hills
- Ingrian: kehvelikäs — abounding in hills
- Irish: cnocach — abounding in hills
- Old Irish: cnoccach — abounding in hills
- Italian: collinoso — abounding in hills
- Latin: clīvōsus — abounding in hills
- Latin: tumulōsus — abounding in hills
- Luxembourgish: hiwweleg — abounding in hills
- Māori: pukepuke — abounding in hills
- Persian: تپه ماهور (tappe-mâhur) — abounding in hills
- Plautdietsch: boajich — abounding in hills
- Polish: pagórkowaty — abounding in hills
- Portuguese: colinoso — abounding in hills
- Romanian: deluros — abounding in hills
- Russian: холми́стый (xolmístyj) — abounding in hills
- Serbo-Croatian: брдо̀вит — abounding in hills
- Serbo-Croatian: brdòvit — abounding in hills
- Slovak: kopcovitý — abounding in hills
- Slovak: pahorkovitý — abounding in hills
- Spanish: montuoso — abounding in hills
- Spanish: con muchas colinas — abounding in hills
- Spanish: con muchas lombas — abounding in hills
- Spanish: con muchas lomadas — abounding in hills
- Spanish: con muchas lomas — abounding in hills
- Swedish: kuperad — abounding in hills
- Swedish: kullig — abounding in hills
- Turkish: tepelik — abounding in hills
- Ukrainian: горби́стий (horbýstyj) — abounding in hills
- Ukrainian: па́гористий (páhorystyj) — abounding in hills
- Ukrainian: горбкува́тий (horbkuvátyj) — abounding in hills
- Unami: òhchuwike — abounding in hills
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