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/hˈɪli/ Listen

adjective

Hilly adj.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. "Hilly steep."

Lofty; as, hilly empire. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Hilly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hilly" Quotes from Famous Books

... joined one to another and built exactly alike; past large, fenced-in public parks where all kinds of odd, unfamiliar trees grew, with branches that ran right down their trunks, and bushy leaves. The broad streets were hilly; the wind, coming in puffs, met them with clouds of gritty white dust. They had just, with bent heads, their hands at their hats, passed through one of these miniature whirlwinds, when turning a corner ...

— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson

... is now New Mexico was at the time of which I am writing considered perfectly worthless. It is a rolling, hilly country with smooth, level valleys between the hills and is proving to be very fertile and is settling as fast as ...

— Chief of Scouts • W.F. Drannan

... in the west consists of rolling plains, hills, and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; Moravia in the east consists of very hilly country ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... grew before them, and shifted still more to the right. It was hilly and green now, though the trees could not be clearly made out; here, the green was lighter in colour, and there, darker. A rim of pure white marble seemed to surround its base. It was foam ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... through thickets at whiles not very great, and betwixt them rode hilly land grassed mostly with long coarse grass, and with whin and thorn-trees scattered about. Thence he saw again from time to time the huge wall of the mountains rising up into the air like a great black cloud that would swallow up the sky, and though the sight ...

— The Well at the World's End • William Morris

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