capitol hill

1. 1.

   a hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets

   “they are debating the budget today on Capitol Hill”

   Synonymsthe Hill

   Broaderhill

   Part ofWashington

Questions about capitol hill

What does capitol hill mean?

capitol hill means "a hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets".

What is another word for capitol hill?

Close synonyms include the Hill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capitol hill a common word?

capitol hill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.