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THE HILL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets
Example:
they are debating the budget today on Capitol Hill
Synonyms:
Capitol Hill; the Hill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)
Holonyms ("the Hill" is a part of...):
American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C. (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791)
Context examples:
Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, “You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Even so, they were twice dragged backward by the weight of the sled, and slid and fell down the hill, the living and the dead, the haul-ropes and the sled, in ghastly entanglement.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
We had turned off the road, and were making our way up the hill, when, looking in the direction of Holdernesse Hall, I saw a cyclist coming swiftly along.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My friend would stay some little time at the fall, he said, and would then walk slowly over the hill to Rosenlaui, where I was to rejoin him in the evening.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The gentleman offered his services; and perceiving that her modesty declined what her situation rendered necessary, took her up in his arms without farther delay, and carried her down the hill.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The Miss Musgroves agreed to it; and having all kindly watched him as far up the hill as they could, they returned to the breakfast table.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He lives on the Hill, back of the Mayfair bakery, runnin’ a cobbler’s shop that everybody knows, and you’ll have no trouble.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
There have been two or three fine old trees cut down, that grew too near the house, and it opens the prospect amazingly, which makes me think that Repton, or anybody of that sort, would certainly have the avenue at Sotherton down: the avenue that leads from the west front to the top of the hill, you know, turning to Miss Bertram particularly as he spoke.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then we looked back and saw where the clear line of Dracula's castle cut the sky; for we were so deep under the hill whereon it was set that the angle of perspective of the Carpathian mountains was far below it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Inside they were warm and dry, running in straight passages of varying length into the side of the hill, with smooth gray walls decorated with many excellent pictures done with charred sticks and representing the various animals of the plateau.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
