Meaning of the Hill in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Noun

    the Hill

    Definitions

    1. a hill in Washington, D.C., where the capitol building sits and Congress meets

    Examples

    • « they are debating the budget today on Capital Hill »

Famous quotes

  • « All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'. »
    Duke of Wellington
  • « The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. »
    W. Somerset Maugham
  • « It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. »
    Lewis Thomas
  • « Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. »
    William E. Gladstone
  • « I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. »
    William Wordsworth

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