anthill

[ ant-hil ]

noun

1. a mound of earth, leaves, etc., formed by a colony of ants in digging or constructing their underground nest.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anthill¹

1250–1300; Middle English amete hulle, ampte hille; ant, hill

Example Sentences

But Oloya could not resist walking by an anthill without scooping some of the fresh, soft clay from it and creating a ball for a slingshot or something else from it.

From BBC

The position is so vast and covered in trenches, bunkers and tunnels that some parts have been compared to an anthill.

From New York Times

Begay Sr. uses a walking stick to wind past pockets of yellow flowers, heavily trafficked anthills and the occasional prickly pear.

From Seattle Times

And then fire threatens his family and all those issues become anthills in comparison to surviving this night.

From Salon

In Staromaiorske, Russian soldiers dug bunkers underneath the village’s houses with multiple exits so a house would erupt like an anthill when under attack, said Dikyi, the Ukrainian commander.

From New York Times