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heap

/hiːp/noun, verb1 syllable

Heap means: (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent.

Synonyms for heap35

noun, as in (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel
and 12 more, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

noun, as in a collection of objects laid on top of each other

pile, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus

noun, as in a car that is old and unreliable

bus, jalopy

verb, as in arrange in stacks

stack, pile

also used for heap

amass, heap up, pile up

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What does heap mean?6

noun

1

(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent“a batch of letters”

2

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

3

a car that is old and unreliable“the fenders had fallen off that old bus”

verb

1

arrange in stacks“heap firewood around the fireplace”

2

bestow in large quantities“He heaped him with work”

3

fill to overflow“heap the platter with potatoes”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with heap?16

two syllables

asleep
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Heap in a sentence

  • A delicatessen caught fire and burned down, leaving a heap of ashes.AlanF_US
  • Fan letters lay in a heap on the desk.RJH
  • The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.CK
  • She left the old newspapers lying in a heap.CM
  • She fell in a heap to the floor.unknown
  • Get rid of that heap of old newspapers.darinmex
  • It's a kinda ridicule unnecessary fibonacci-syllabic-heap.sacredceltic
  • It's important to get the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio right in a compost heap.patgfisher

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Forms of heap

as a noun

plural
heaps

as a verb

past tense
heaped
present participle
heaping
third-person singular
heaps
past participle
heaped