knoll
A small mound or rounded hillA small mound or rounded hill.
» We used to play over by that grassy knoll.
papabear · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRTranslations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Examples
2 sentencesWe used to play over by that grassy knoll.
Tom was on the grassy knoll with a rifle.
Meaning
3 sensesA small mound or rounded hill.
grassy knoll
Hügel, kleiner Hügel, Hügelchen
холмxolm, хо́лмикxólmik, буго́рbugór
a small natural hill
A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
A knell.
Origin
From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Imitative, or variant of knell.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.