Home › Words › H › hillockhillock/ˈhɪl.ək/hillock means A surname from Middle English.hillock is pronounced /ˈhɪl.ək/.EtymologyFrom Middle English hillok (“hillock”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near or on a hillock.nameA surname from Middle English.nounA small hill.e.g.“As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.” — 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XI, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 107:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).