What does hillock mean?
Hillock means A small hill..
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/ˈhɪl.ək/ · 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.
Use hillock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hillock means A small hill..
Common synonyms include colline, toman, mound, hummock.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.
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