Meaning of гомила | Babel Free
Definitions
- wall of stone built without mortar or lime, especially one by the seashore
- pile, heap, any disordered multitude of collected inanimate objects, especially formerly animate objects
- crowd, mob, throng, host, any disordered collection of living things
- multitude of abstract things
- place where garbage or dung is collected, dungyard, dunghill
- curse used for lazy relatives
- the people, the popular mass as a whole
- heap of stones
- (by semantic narrowing) heap of stones used as a marker to delineate the borders of a medieval estate
- (by semantic widening) hill
- tumulus, barrow, sepulchral cairn
- ruins of a house or city razed so that no stone is left atop any other
- (Dubrovnik) (by metaphor) place containing ruins of houses destroyed by earthquake
- (Dubrovnik) (by metonymy) refuse thrown into the ruins of earthquake-destroyed houses
- (by metonymy) stones thrown at one who is being stoned
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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