Lexic.us

Definition of Heaps

1. Noun. A large number or amount. "She amassed stacks of newspapers"

Definition of Heaps

1. Noun. (plural of heap) ¹

2. Noun. A large amount. ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of heap) ¹

4. Adverb. (colloquial) very much, a lot ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heaps

1. heap [v] - See also: heap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heaps

Literary usage of Heaps

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"STONE IN THE SHELL heaps. It will be remembered that the district drained by ... Fortunately, of all the shell-heaps of the river the composition of that at ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"The principle of counting them, and then writing down their number, is that of putting them in heaps ; we must determine how many shall constitute a heap, ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and he strew'd to earth The rampart with all ease, as when a child Strews sand upon the sea-shore ; mimic mounds He heaps in boyish sport, ..."

4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"up sighing with age as he walked on in a lane among heaps of dead language. His own consciousness of language was ebbing from bis brain and trickling into ..."

5. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... the city lie in heaps, and the gates down; and it was then represented to me. just a> I saw it several years after, lying in heaps when it was burned. ..."

6. The Story of Grettir the Strong by Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris (1900)
"Grettir driven from Sand-heaps to the West. BUT when the priest met Grettir he asked him closely about what had happed ; so he told him all the tale of his ..."

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