English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English hillok hill -ock
Pronunciation [ edit ] hillock (plural hillocks
A small hill .
1895 Stephen Crane , chapter XI, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War 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 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 [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] small hill
Afrikaans: koppie (af)
Assamese: টিলা ( tila ) , ঢাপলিকা ( dhapolika )
Bulgarian: хълмче n ( hǎlmče ) , могилка f ( mogilka )
Catalan: pujol (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小丘 (zh) ( xiǎoqiū )
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
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
Plautdietsch: Humpel m
Polish: pagórek (pl) m
Portuguese: colina (pt) f outeiro (pt) m
Romanian: colină (ro) f delușor (ro) m 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
Swahili: kilima (sw)
Turkish: tepecik (tr) , tümsek (tr)
Ukrainian: горбок m ( horbok ) , горбик m ( horbyk ) , пагорбок m ( pahorbok )
Welsh: bryncyn m
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