hillock
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
/ˈhɪl.ək/
(UK)
Definition of hillock
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
-
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.”
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noun
-
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.”
name
- A surname from Middle English.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English hillok, equivalent to hill + -ock.
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