knoll
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knoll¹
- /nəʊl/ UK
- /nɒl/ UK
- /noʊl/ US
Rhymes with -əʊl, -ɒl
Where it comes from
From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).
noun knolls
- A small mound or rounded hill. grassy knoll
- A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
knoll²
- /nəʊl/ UK
- /nɒl/ UK
- /noʊl/ US
Rhymes with -əʊl, -ɒl
Where it comes from
Imitative, or variant of knell.
noun knolls
- A knell.
verb knolls · knolling · knolled
- To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
- To sound (something) like a bell; to knell. If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
- To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc). Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church.
knoll³
- /nəʊl/ UK
- /nɒl/ UK
- /noʊl/ US
Rhymes with -əʊl, -ɒl
Where it comes from
Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.
verb knolls · knolling · knolled
- To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
Knoll⁴
proper noun
- A surname from German
Translations
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noun small mound
| Español | otero |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 小山 koyama |
| 中文 | 小山丘 xiǎo shānqiū, 小丘 xiǎoqiū |
| Português | outeiro |
| Français | monticule, tertre |
| Deutsch | Hügel, kleiner Hügel, Hügelchen, Hubbel, Anhöhe, Buckel |
| Italiano | collina, colle, poggio, dosso |
| Русский | холм xolm, хо́лмик xólmik, буго́р bugór, бугоро́к bugorók, го́рка górka, приго́рок prigórok |
noun underwater hill
| 中文 | 圓丘 /圆丘 yuánqiū |
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title = {knoll},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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