Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mound or hillock of earth, leaves, twigs, and other substances, formed by a colony of ants for or in the process of constructing their habitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A mound-shaped nest built or inhabited by ants or termites.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest
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Examples
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So we get the crystal instead of the cell; the ant-hill instead of brotherhood.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Frankly, the world is watching these ant-hill antics surrounding health care reform with wonder.
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So we get the crystal instead of the cell; the ant-hill instead of brotherhood.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The Googly-eyed newbies working in the Google ant-hill can not be trusted.
How Google Could Keep Yahoo From Microsoft - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Not all the stares were hostile—there were plenty who watched us closely, neutrally, like little kids watching an ant-hill, placing bets on which insects would wander off and fry in the sun.
Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009
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Not all the stares were hostile—there were plenty who watched us closely, neutrally, like little kids watching an ant-hill, placing bets on which insects would wander off and fry in the sun.
Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
Les Miserables 2008
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Without The Life Divine the project is just an ant-hill.
Charles Darwin and The Life Divine Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Without The Life Divine the project is just an ant-hill.
Archive 2008-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Miserables 2008
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