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Etymology
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From Middle English hilly, hylly, hully, equivalent to hill + -y.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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hilly (comparative hillier, superlative hilliest)
- (of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills.
1962 August, “More W.R. services in jeopardy”, in Modern Railways, page 82, photo caption:The intermediate station seen here, Llanbister Road, is 5 hilly miles by road from the town it purports to serve.
1972, Chi Hsin, “Where the Sunghua River Flows”, in The Seeds and Other Stories[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 145:Our first stop is in Antu County, Kirin Province, a rugged and hilly extension of the Changpai foothills. The temperature in midsummer lingers around 20° C.
Translations
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abounding in hills
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Assamese: পাহাৰীয়া (paharia)
- Belarusian: паго́рысты (pahórysty), узо́ркаваты (uzórkavaty), узго́рысты (uzhórysty)
- Bulgarian: хълми́ст (hǎlmíst), хъ́лмест (hǎ́lmest)
- Catalan: muntanyós (ca)
- Czech: kopcovitý (cs), pahorkatý
- Dutch: heuvelachtig (nl)
- Finnish: mäkinen (fi), kukkulainen
- French: vallonné (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: hügelig (de)
- Hungarian: dombos (hu), dimbes-dombos (hu)
- Icelandic: hæðóttur
- Ingrian: kehvelikäs
- Irish: cnocach
- Old Irish: cnoccach
- Italian: collinoso (it)
- Latin: clīvōsus, tumulōsus
- Luxembourgish: hiwweleg (lb)
- Maori: pukepuke
- Persian: تپه ماهور (tappe-mâhur)
- Plautdietsch: boajich
- Polish: pagórkowaty (pl)
- Portuguese: colinoso
- Romanian: deluros (ro)
- Russian: холми́стый (ru) (xolmístyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: брдо̀вит
- Roman: brdòvit (sh)
- Slovak: kopcovitý, pahorkovitý
- Spanish: montuoso (es)
- Swedish: kuperad (sv), kullig (sv)
- Turkish: tepelik (tr)
- Ukrainian: горби́стий (horbýstyj), па́гористий (páhorystyj), горбкува́тий (horbkuvátyj)
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