hillock

Etymology

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

noun

  1. A small hill.
    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. 16 September 2014, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian

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