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{
"term": "hill",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"image": "data/images/co/countryside.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an area of land that is higher than the land around it, but not as high as a mountain",
"sensetop": "on a hillup a hilldown a hillin the hills",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a region of gently **rolling hills**"
},
{
"text": "a hill farm/town/fort"
},
{
"text": "The church is perched on a hill.",
"contextForm": "on a hill"
},
{
"text": "The house is built on the side of a hill overlooking the river."
},
{
"text": "They make their way up the hill.",
"contextForm": "up a hill"
},
{
"text": "We started to walk back down the hill.",
"contextForm": "down a hill"
},
{
"text": "I love walking in the hills *(= in the area where there are hills)*.",
"contextForm": "in the hills"
},
{
"text": "They stopped at the **top of the hill** to admire the view."
},
{
"text": "A spring emerges at the bottom of the hill."
},
{
"text": "A grassy path led down the hill."
},
{
"text": "Olive groves cover the hills."
},
{
"text": "Over the hill lies another town."
},
{
"text": "The landscape is made up of low, rolling hills."
},
{
"text": "The town is set on a small hill."
},
{
"text": "There are several lead mines in the hills above Grassington."
},
{
"text": "They climbed a steep hill and came to the town."
},
{
"text": "They crested a small hill and then the path curved."
},
{
"text": "Troops forced villagers to flee to the surrounding hills."
},
{
"text": "We took to the hills in a variety of four-wheel-drive vehicles."
},
{
"text": "Wooded hills rise behind the town."
},
{
"text": "a hill overlooking the wide valley below"
},
{
"text": "the chalk hills of southern England"
},
{
"text": "the distant blue hills"
},
{
"text": "the houses which dotted the hill"
},
{
"text": "the limestone hills of Kentucky"
}
],
"topics": ["Geography"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "high", "long"],
"verb + hill": ["ascend", "climb", "climb up"],
"hill + verb": ["overlook something", "rise", "surround something"],
"hill + noun": ["climbing", "walking", "climb"],
"preposition": ["down a/the hill", "in the hills", "on a/the hill"],
"phrases": [
"the bottom of a/the hill",
"the foot of a/the hill",
"the crest of a/the hill"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a slope on a road",
"sensetop": "up a hilldown a hill",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The motorcade made its way up the hill.",
"contextForm": "up a hill"
},
{
"text": "Always take care when driving down **steep hills**.",
"contextForm": "down a hill"
},
{
"text": "a hill start *(= the act of starting a vehicle on a slope)*"
},
{
"text": "I had to do a hill start."
},
{
"text": "The bus sped down the long hill."
},
{
"text": "A few yards up the hill, on the left, was a turning."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "high", "long"],
"verb + hill": ["ascend", "climb", "climb up"],
"hill + verb": ["overlook something", "rise", "surround something"],
"hill + noun": ["climbing", "walking", "climb"],
"preposition": ["down a/the hill", "in the hills", "on a/the hill"],
"phrases": [
"the bottom of a/the hill",
"the foot of a/the hill",
"the crest of a/the hill"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "Capitol Hill (= used to refer to the US Capitol and the activities that take place there)",
"labels": "(North American English, informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very old; ancient",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "something that is not worth much",
"labels": "(North American English, old-fashioned, informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "old and therefore no longer useful or attractive",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Youngsters seem to think you're over the hill at 40!"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/hɪl/",
"audio": "hi/hill/hill__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/hɪl/",
"audio": "hi/hill/hill__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English hyll, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin collis and Greek kolōnos ‘hill’."
}