Polyglot Dictionary

colina

/koˈlinɐ/

a noun B1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
as colinas

Meaning

  1. hill

    • Subimos a colina.

      We climbed the hill.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

morro

morro is more Brazilian, and can also refer to a favela hillside community, an important cultural connotation in Brazil; colina is a more general, neutral hill.

Similar in other languages

German

Hügel

Hügel is the German word for the same thing — both mean "hill."

Spanish

cerro

cerro is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "hill."

Spanish

colina

colina is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "hill."

Practice

1 What does colina mean?

2 Fill the gap: Subimos a ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches colina?

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