MOLEHILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does molehill mean? 

• MOLEHILL (noun)
  The noun MOLEHILL has 1 sense:

1. a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing

  Familiarity information: MOLEHILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOLEHILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mound of earth made by moles while burrowing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("molehill" is a kind of...):

hammock; hillock; hummock; knoll; mound (a small natural hill)

 Context examples 

Oh, he made a mountain out of a molehill.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was strange there, in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man’s handiwork on every side of us, to feel the iron grip of Nature, and to be conscious that to the huge elemental forces all London was no more than the molehills that dot the fields.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)