hilly

See also: Hilly

English

Alternative forms

• hillie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English hilly, hylly, hully, equivalent to hill +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪli

Adjective

hilly (comparative hillier, superlative hilliest)

1. (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

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)

Scots

Adjective

hilly

1. holy