hillock

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪl.ək/

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.

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

     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

Translations

small hill

• Afrikaans: koppie
• 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
• Greek: λοφάκι (el) n (lofáki)
• Hebrew: גבעונת f (givónet)
• Icelandic: hóll (is) m
• Irish: altán m, cnocán m, tulach f
• Italian: collinetta f
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• Latin: tumulus m
• Manx: crongan m
• Maori: toropuke, karapuke, tapuke
• Norman: butchiéthe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: knaus (no) m

• Polish: pagórek (pl) m
• Portuguese: colina (pt) f
• 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)
• Welsh: bryncyn m
• Westrobothnian: , ,