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Definition of hillock in English: hillocknoun ˈhɪləkˈhɪlək A small hill or mound. Example sentencesExamples - This has given rise to fears whether the hillock, with many folklores about it, would soon vanish from Muttara.
- The great forest spread like a pine-sea over the rolling hillocks and thin meadows of the arctic-like spring.
- For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.
- The hillock in which the cave lies is wooded and beautiful.
- All these actions together have helped BT reduce its debt mountain to a small hillock.
- Strictly speaking this nowhere was situated in a hillock with moor.
- Thus, not all growth hillocks are growth spirals, however; such hillocks are much less common.
- We reached a meadow, a valley amidst hillocks called the Muthankolly Valley.
- There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top!
- Some hillocks look like peaks in deep brown red stretching high into the sky.
- This is the top of Pole Hill, a wooded hillock in Norman Tebbitt's old stomping round of Chingford.
- Night was nearly there, only a thin ribbon of crimson haze touched the brink of the hillocks.
- Trekking need not necessarily be in hillocks and mountains.
- To get to the cemetery, Pat and I had to negotiate rivers of mud and hillocks of cows' droppings.
- One common surface microtopographic feature is a growth hillock, a small mound on a crystal face.
- For example, the mountain that is little more than a hillock may be climbed in an hour.
- The hillocks were twice the men's height and wetter even than the grass.
- A company of Kurushan archers surrounded the small hillock as their warriors ahead of them drew up their shields.
- Le Moulin Rouge is an exotic nightclub situated in Montmartre, a community on the Butte hillock overlooking Paris.
- Bisho high-rise buildings dot the horizon and small hillocks surround the village of Masingata, close to King William's Town.
Synonyms mound, small hill, prominence, eminence, elevation, rise, knoll, hummock, hump, tump, dune, barrow, tumulus bank, ridge Northern English howe North American knob South African koppie archaic knap, monticle
Derivatives adjective They have a hillocky surface, and the soils profile is poor. Example sentencesExamples - The relief is far from uniform: hillocky areas intermingled with low mountains, plain and river valleys.
- Its relief is typically hillocky with the absolute marks up to 228 m.
- It is 450 yard par four which doglegs left and downhill to an enormous green, out of bonds on the left and wild, hillocky duneland to the right.
- Hillocky and small hillocky swamps, with numerous lakes, channels, and streams are widely distributed throughout the reserve.
Definition of hillock in US English: hillocknounˈhiləkˈhɪlək A small hill or mound. Example sentencesExamples - All these actions together have helped BT reduce its debt mountain to a small hillock.
- The great forest spread like a pine-sea over the rolling hillocks and thin meadows of the arctic-like spring.
- Bisho high-rise buildings dot the horizon and small hillocks surround the village of Masingata, close to King William's Town.
- Thus, not all growth hillocks are growth spirals, however; such hillocks are much less common.
- For example, the mountain that is little more than a hillock may be climbed in an hour.
- Le Moulin Rouge is an exotic nightclub situated in Montmartre, a community on the Butte hillock overlooking Paris.
- Night was nearly there, only a thin ribbon of crimson haze touched the brink of the hillocks.
- This is the top of Pole Hill, a wooded hillock in Norman Tebbitt's old stomping round of Chingford.
- We reached a meadow, a valley amidst hillocks called the Muthankolly Valley.
- A company of Kurushan archers surrounded the small hillock as their warriors ahead of them drew up their shields.
- Strictly speaking this nowhere was situated in a hillock with moor.
- Some hillocks look like peaks in deep brown red stretching high into the sky.
- To get to the cemetery, Pat and I had to negotiate rivers of mud and hillocks of cows' droppings.
- This has given rise to fears whether the hillock, with many folklores about it, would soon vanish from Muttara.
- One common surface microtopographic feature is a growth hillock, a small mound on a crystal face.
- There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top!
- The hillock in which the cave lies is wooded and beautiful.
- For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.
- The hillocks were twice the men's height and wetter even than the grass.
- Trekking need not necessarily be in hillocks and mountains.
Synonyms mound, small hill, prominence, eminence, elevation, rise, knoll, hummock, hump, tump, dune, barrow, tumulus |