Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small hill.
  • noun Biology A small protuberance or elevation, as from an organ, tissue, or structure.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small hill; a slight elevation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small hill.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a small hill

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small natural hill

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English hillok, from hil, hill; see hill.]

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From hill +‎ -ock.

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