Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being hilly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being hilly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
hilly or havinghills .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being hilly
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Examples
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It's a flat place, not the mind-numbing flatness of western Kansas, there is some roll, some hilliness as the land rises toward the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, but still smooth with a horizon that stretches forever.
Archive 2010-04-01 Big Jim 2010
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It's a flat place, not the mind-numbing flatness of western Kansas, there is some roll, some hilliness as the land rises toward the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, but still smooth with a horizon that stretches forever.
Only a couple of decades late. Big Jim 2010
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Their hilliness has allowed them to miss out on cultivation and act as wilderness preserves, though a couple have been partly quarried or suburbanized, and Mount Royal itself is either downtown or park.
Canada 2010
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It takes about half an hour each way, and hopefully if I do it often enough eventually the hilliness will stop hurting so much.
Archive 2009-04-01 Ra 2009
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It takes about half an hour each way, and hopefully if I do it often enough eventually the hilliness will stop hurting so much.
Embrace the Princetonness Ra 2009
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But to me it's not the hilliness of the fairway terrain that is most surprising.
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Associated Press Hills like these at Augusta National are expected, but the hilliness of the greens are particularly hard to pick up on television.
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The invalids and animals have improved during their stay here, and we start this morning on about our last bearing generally, although we cannot go direct from the hilliness of the country.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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The hilliness of the country forced them to travel slowly, and it seemed to
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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Though we marched all day, except about 3 hours we stopped for the horses to feed; we have not made a long day's journey; owing to the hilliness of the roads, sometimes we had an Indian road, and sometimes we had none.
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