hillock

See also: Hillock

English

Etymology

From Middle English hillok, equivalent to hill +‎ -ock.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪl.ək/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlək

Noun

hillock (plural hillocks)

1. A small hill.
   • 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XI, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 107:

     As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 63:

     With the setting sun sending long shadows loping ahead of them over the smooth hillocks of the downs, they came up with the lagoon; a contentful return home, with appetite brisked up by a ten-mile walk, and plenty of food to satisfy it.

   • 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:

     Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

Synonyms

• toman

Derived terms

• axon hillock
• hillocked
• hillocky

Translations

small hill

Afrikaans: koppie (af) Albanian: kodrinë (sq) f Assamese: টিলা (tila), ঢাপলিকা (dhapolika) Bulgarian: хълмче n (hǎlmče), могилка f (mogilka) Catalan: pujol (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 小丘 (zh) (xiǎoqiū) Czech: kopeček (cs) m, pahorek (cs) m, pahrbek (cs) m Esperanto: altaĵeto, teramaso Finnish: kumpu (fi) French: monticule (fr), tertre (fr), mondrain (fr), mamelon (fr) m Galician: outeiro (gl) m, galaio m, beán m, bicaño m, cotarelo m, picouto m, maderno m, cuíña (gl) f, taroutelo m, cemba (gl) f, altorelo m, curuto m Greek: λοφάκι (el) n (lofáki) Hebrew: גבעונת f (givónet) Hindi: टीला (hi) m (ṭīlā), ढूह m (ḍhūh), भीटा (hi) m (bhīṭā), छोटी पहाड़ी f (choṭī pahāṛī) Icelandic: hóll (is) m Ingrian: mätäs, könkörä, bygrä, syrjy Irish: altán m, cnocán m, tulach f Italian: collinetta f, monticello m Kazakh: төмпешік (tömpeşık) Latin: colliculus m, tumulus m Manx: crongan m Maori: toropuke, karapuke, tapuke Norman: butchiéthe f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: knaus (no) m, knatt m Nynorsk: knaus m, knatt m Ottoman Turkish: كومه (küme) Persian: تپه‌چه (tappeče) Plautdietsch: Humpel m Polish: pagórek (pl) m, wzgórek (pl) m Portuguese: colina (pt) f, outeiro (pt) m Romanian: colină (ro) f, delușor (ro) n, movilă (ro) f, grui (ro) n Russian: высо́тка (ru) f (vysótka), хо́лмик (ru) m (xólmik), приго́рок (ru) m (prigórok) Spanish: cerrito m, collado (es) m, colina (es) f, colineta, altozano (es), alcor (es) m, loma (es) f, lomada (es) f, lomba f Swahili: kilima (sw) Tamil: மேடு (ta) (mēṭu) Turkish: tepecik (tr), tümsek (tr) Ukrainian: горбок m (horbok), горбик m (horbyk), пагорбок m (pahorbok) Welsh: bryncyn m

See also

• hummock