{
    "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’."
}