hillock
Gentle earthen rise
A hillock is a small hill—a gentle rise in the landscape, minor enough to climb without effort but distinct enough to notice.
The word carries a quaint, pastoral quality: Sheep grazed on the grassy hillocks.
It appears more often in literary or descriptive writing than everyday speech.
Small rounded hill
Load carrier or tumulus
- tumulusAncient burial mound
- cairnMemorial stone pile
- motteFortification's central mound
- graveSerious and worrying
chambered · neolithic · ancient · prehistoric · funerary · ceremonial · burial · excavation
knoll
Small rounded hill
swell · tor · drumlin · kopje · brae · butte · dun · tump · esker · moraine
barrow
Load carrier or tumulus
grave · chambered · neolithic · ancient · prehistoric · funerary · ceremonial · burial · excavation · archaeology
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
- fieldArea of specialty
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
terrain · vista · grassland · dale · glade · prairie · rolling · rural · pastoral · scenery
soil
Ground matter for planting
sediment · glacial · erosion · strata · deposit · bedrock · gravel · till · terrain · formation
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
- British Countrysidehedgerow, village, hedgerows, hamlet, moorland
- hillsknoll, mound, foothill, foothills, butte
- Moundsant mound, anthill, burial mound, cairn, dirt pile
- prairie landformsbutte, mesa, bluff, badlands, tableland
- small hillsknoll, mound, kopje, drumlin, barrow