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knoll.

A small mound or rounded hill.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/nəʊl/Received-Pronunciation/nɒl/Received-Pronunciation/noʊl/General-American
  1. A small mound or rounded hill.

    grassy knoll
  2. A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

Where this word 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/nəʊl/Received-Pronunciation/nɒl/Received-Pronunciation/noʊl/General-American
  1. A knell.

Where this word comes from

Imitative, or variant of knell.

verb/nəʊl/Received-Pronunciation/nɒl/Received-Pronunciation/noʊl/General-American
  1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.

    transitive
  2. To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.

    ambitransitive
  3. To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Imitative, or variant of knell.

verb/nəʊl/Received-Pronunciation/nɒl/Received-Pronunciation/noʊl/General-American
  1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

Where this word comes from

Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.

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