noun
a hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets
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they are debating the budget today on Capitol Hill
• Syn: ↑the Hill
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑hill
• Part Holonyms: ↑Washington, ↑Washington D.C., ↑American capital, ↑capital of the United States
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noun [singular]
: the group of people who make the federal laws in the United States : the U.S. Congress
The organization is lobbying Capital Hill to increase funding for AIDS research.
◇ The U.S. Congress is called Capitol Hill because that is the name of the area in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol building is located.
an apartment near/on Capitol Hill
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used to refer to the US Capitol and the activities that take place there
Useful english dictionary. 2012.