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    Definitions

    1 | noun | a collection of objects laid on top of each other 2 | noun | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent 3 | noun | a car that is old and unreliable 4 | verb | bestow in large quantities 5 | verb | arrange in stacks 6 | verb | fill to overflow (6 meanings)

    Pronunciation

    h'eep (IPA: hˈip)

    Hyphenation

    heap (no hyphenation) (4 letters | 1 syllable)

    Word origin

    Old English

    Word frequency history

    Inflected forms

    heaps | heaped | heaping

    Synonyms

    agglomerate | cumulation | cumulus | pile | batch | deal | flock | good deal | great deal | hatful | lot | mass | mess | mickle | mint | ... (total: 30)

    Narrower terms

    compost heap | compost pile | dunghill | funeral pyre | midden | muckheap | muckhill | pyre | scrapheap | shock | slagheap | stack | stockpile | woodpile | deluge | ... (total: 21)

    Broader terms

    accumulation | aggregation | assemblage | collection | large indefinite amount | large indefinite quantity | auto | automobile | car | dysphemism | machine | motorcar | give | arrange | set up | ... (total: 18)

    Rhymes

    asleep | beep | bleep | bopeep | cheap | creep | deep | jeep | keep | leap | peep | reap | seep | sheep | sleep | ... (total: 18) (based on typical American pronunciation)

    Lexically close words

    cheap | head | heal | hear | heat | help | hemp | leap | neap | reap (total: 10)

    Anagrams

    (none among common words)

    Phrases

    garbage heap | heap up | junk heap | refuse heap | rubbish heap | trash heap (total: 6)

    Translations

    Spanish: | montón (quantity) | pila (quantity) French: | tas (quantity) Portuguese: | monte (quantity) | pilha (quantity) German: | Haufen (quantity) Japanese: | 山 (common noun) | 山盛 (irregular okurigana) | 重ね (common noun) | 山盛り (common noun) | 山積み (common noun)

    Other notable uses

    Heap (US population: 1900 people, white: 91%)

    heap.com | heap.net | heap.org | heap.info | heap.biz (total: 5)

    Crossword puzzle clues

    Bucket of bolts | Bunch | Cairn | Clunker of a car | Disorderly stack | Great deal | Jalopy | Lot | Mound | Multitude | Old jalopy | Pile (total: 12) (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

    Scrabble score

    9 (International English) | 9 (North American English)

    Phone keypad digits

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