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Added 29 September 2026

heap

/hiːp/ noun

In Latin: struēs, acervus, cumulus Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about heap at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
a heap of earth; a heap of stones
A great number or large quantity of things.

verb

To pile in a heap.
He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
To supply in great quantity.
They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

adverb

very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans

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)).

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