hillock
noun/ˈhɪl.ək/UK
Etymology
From Middle English hillok (“hillock”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near or on a hillock.
- inherited from hillok
Definitions
A small hill.
- As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.
- 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.
- 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.
A surname from Middle English.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA