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Hillock vs Massif - What's the difference?

hillock | massif |

As a noun hillock

is a small hill.

As an adjective massif is

massive.

hillock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a small hill
  • * 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
    • Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

    massif

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia massif) (en noun)
  • A principal mountain mass.
  • A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists