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hillock

UK/ˈhɪl.ək/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — hill sits at #929leans written

Other forms: hillocks

A hillock is a very small hill. A grassy hillock, stand on the hillock, a hillock in the field.

The -ock ending is a diminutive that English has almost stopped using, surviving in hillock, bullock and a handful of others. In a field a hillock is often a burial mound or the site of something long gone.

Definitions of hillock

  1. 1nounhillockA very small hill.C2

    “We sat on a grassy hillock and watched the sun go down over the fields.”

hillock is a hill.

Where it comes from

Middle English hillok is hill plus the diminutive ending -ock.

  1. Middle English

    hillok

  2. English, today

    hillock

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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hillock in the wild

  • The axon hillock is a specialized part of the cell body (or soma) of a neuron that connects to the axon.

    Axon hillock

  • The axon hillock is the last site in the soma where membrane potentials propagated from synaptic inputs are summated before being transmitted to the axon.

    Axon hillock

  • The hillock is situated 500 metres from the Sion railway station.

    Sion Hillock Fort

  • Encircling the Thekkinkadu Maidan, Swaraj Round surrounds the small hillock on which the Vadakkunnathan Temple dedicated to Shiva is built.

    Swaraj Round, Thrissur

  • A hillock or knoll is a small hill, usually separated from a larger group of hills such as a range.

    Hillock

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • hill