"kopje" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From (South African) Dutch kopje, diminutive of kop (“head”).",
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          "ref": "1883 June, Ralph Iron [pseudonym; Olive Schreiner], “Shadows from Child-life. The Watch.”, in The Story of an African Farm, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: H. M. Caldwell Company, →OCLC, part I, page 9:",
          "text": "In one spot only was the solemn monotony of the plain broken. Near the center a small solitary “kopje” rose. Alone it lay there, a heap of round ironstones piled one upon the other, as over some giant’s grave.",
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          "ref": "1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Prospecting Begins”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 105:",
          "text": "We selected a lichenous kopje perhaps fifteen yards away, and landed neatly on its summit one after the other.",
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        {
          "ref": "1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 8:",
          "text": "Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; […] and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes.",
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        {
          "ref": "1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 72:",
          "text": "On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.",
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        "A small hill or mound, especially on the African veld."
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          "mound",
          "mound"
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          "African",
          "African#Adjective"
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          "veld",
          "veld"
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        "(South Africa) A small hill or mound, especially on the African veld."
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        {
          "word": "koppie"
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      "ipa": "/kəʊpi/"
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      "ipa": "/kɒpi/"
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      "homophone": "copy"
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  "word": "kopje"
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          "text": "On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.",
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      "word": "koppie"
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