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knoll

/nəʊl/US/noʊl/

knoll noun: a small mound or rounded hill.

Noun (1)

knoll (plural knolls)

  1. A small mound or rounded hill.
    • grassy knoll
    • On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Second”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza...
  2. A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

Noun (2)

knoll (plural knolls)

  1. A knell.

Verb (1)

knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

  1. (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  2. (ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
    • If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...]1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “Parisina”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 81, lines 394–395
  3. (transitive) 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.1851, Charles Mackay, The Mormons, Or Latter-day Saints. With Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mohomet", page 206
    • The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […]1891, Thomas George Bonney, Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales: Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial, page 769

Verb (2)

knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

  1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

Proper noun capitalized: Knoll

Knoll

  1. A surname from German

knoll meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

knoll in Hindi

knoll, rising ground, mound or ridge of sand
टिब्बा ṭibbā

knoll in Tamil

சிறு வட்டக் குன்று, தனிக்குன்று

knoll in Urdu

چھوٹی پہاڑی, گھنٹے کی آواز, پہاڑ کی چوٹی, ٹیلا

knoll in Bengali

ছোট শৈল, টিলা, গোল টিলা
More languagesFewer languages
knoll in Malayalam
ലഘുഗിരി, മൊട്ടക്കുന്ന്, മേട്
knoll in Kannada
ದಿಬ್ಬ, ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಗುಡ್ಡ
knoll in Punjabi
ਟੇਕਰੀ ṭekrī
knoll in Pashto
غونډۍ

Examples of knoll in a sentence

  • Pack a picnic—a chilled bottle of Sancerre, cheese, olives, and a nice baguette—and hit the grassy knoll.2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1...
  • [A]ll that night I heard / The heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 27:

Forms of knoll

Noun
pluralknolls
Verb
third-person singular presentknolls
present participleknolling
past participleknolled
pastknolled

Plural of knoll: knolls

Origin of knoll

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”).

Imitative, or variant of knell.

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

Words formed from knoll

Words that rhyme with knoll

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Questions about knoll

What does knoll mean?
Knoll means a small mound or rounded hill.
What is knoll in Hindi?
Knoll in Hindi is टिब्बा (ṭibbā). See Knoll meaning in Hindi.
How do you use knoll in a sentence?
Pack a picnic—a chilled bottle of Sancerre, cheese, olives, and a nice baguette—and hit the grassy knoll.
What part of speech is knoll?
Knoll can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce knoll?
Knoll is pronounced /nəʊl/ (UK).
What is the plural of knoll?
The plural of knoll is knolls.

Words near knoll in the dictionary

  1. knoleche
  2. knolege
  3. knoleige
  4. Knoles
  5. Knoleses
  6. knoll
  7. Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy
  8. knolled
  9. knollenorgan
  10. knollenorgans
  11. knoller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knoll (page history and authors); Knoll (page history and authors); टिब्बा (Hindi) (page history and authors); knoll (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); knoll (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Knoll (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); knoll (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); knoll (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); غونډۍ (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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