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Definition of Kopje
1. Noun. A small hill rising up from the African veld.
Geographical relationships: Republic Of South Africa, South Africa
Generic synonyms: Hammock, Hillock, Hummock, Knoll, Mound
Definition of Kopje
1. n. A hillock; a small kop.
Definition of Kopje
1. Noun. (South Africa) A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kopje
1. a small hill [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kopje
Literary usage of Kopje
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tommy Cornstalk: Being Some Account of the Less Notable Features of the by John Henry Macartney Abbott (1902)
"While they rested we were to ride out and ' feel' that long, blue kopje. ...
The kopje looked peaceful and quiet in the warm afternoon sunlight. ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1897)
"After keeping up a running fight from Krugersdorp. t h. v dislodged the Boers
from one kopje, and then the column was brought to a stop by another well- ..."
3. With Plumer in Matabeleland: An Account of the Operations of the by Frank W. Sykes, C. G. Löwinger (1897)
"On the summit of this same kopje, D and E Squadrons had engaged a strong party
of the rebels and had succeeded in driving them over an adjacent hill, ..."
4. To the Cape for Diamonds.: A Story of Digging Experiences in South Africa by Frederick Boyle (1873)
"S. buy the kopje provisionally — Best's kopje — Changes at the old New Rush —
The Leviathan digger, how he lives — Quantity of diamonds held back— ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1900)
"The kopje itself was like thousands of others to be met with in South Africa,
... About five hundred yards from the summit of the kopje, where our foes were ..."
6. The Story of the 34th Company (Middlesex) Imperial Yeomanry: From the Point by William Corner (1902)
"We rode up a big hill or kopje, which juts out from the higher mesa or tableland
north-east and east of Klip Nek. Here we waited some hours, expecting an ..."
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