ant hill

British  

noun

1. a mound of soil, leaves, etc, near the entrance of an ants' nest, carried and deposited there by the ants while constructing the nest

2. a mound of earth, usually about 2 metres high, built up by termites in forming a nest

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Example Sentences

One picture book she read to them was “The Ant Hill Disaster,” about a boy ant who is afraid to go back to school after it is destroyed.

From Seattle Times

Access had vanished across broad swaths of Morro da Formiga, or Ant Hill, a tough neighborhood on the city's north side.

From Reuters

For many weeks the children had been collecting firewood, rags, leaves and brushwood, and the result was a huge pile like an enormous ant hill, into which the flames ate fiercely, hissing and crackling and rearing up as they fed on the bits of camphor and oil-soaked rags that people threw in.

From Literature

When he went to inspect his ball, he saw that it was sitting near what he called a fire ant hill.

From Fox News

What Bazilian uncovered was an ant hill of 30-something-year-olds who collectively oohed and aahed over images of faded floral pillow shams and Mario Buatta-designed rooms from the ’80s — images that seem fresh and exciting to them, because they grew up in the more neutral, toned-down homes of their parents.

From Washington Post