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"Pile"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hiːp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aehpStarts with HEnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Pile or large quantity of things.

Word origin

From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).

Used in a sentence

  • A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences
  • He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
  • a heap of earth; a heap of stones

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