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Riverbank vs Hill - What's the difference?

riverbank | hill |

As a noun riverbank

is a sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.

As a proper noun hill is

; the us congress.

riverbank

English

Noun

  • A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
  • * 1900 — , ch 8
  • "The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again," remarked the Lion.

    hill

    English

    (wikipedia hill)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
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  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills , the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • A sloping road.
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  • (label) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
  • (label) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
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  • (label) The pitcher’s mound.
  • Derived terms

    * downhill * dunghill * head for the hills * hilly * hilling * hillock * hill of beans * hillside * hill station * king of the hill * over the hill * uphill

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form into a heap or mound.
  • To heap or draw earth around plants.
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