name
Meaning 1
A surname from German
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
knoll
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /nəʊl/
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Received-Pronunciation: /nɒl/
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General-American: nōl
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General-American: /noʊl/
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rhymes with -əʊl
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rhymes with -ɒl
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CMU ARPABET: N OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A small mound or rounded hill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- grassy knoll
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noun
Meaning 3
A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences, oceanography
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noun
Meaning 4
A knell.
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verb
Meaning 5
To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
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noun
Meaning 9
a small natural hill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mound, hillock, hummock, hammock
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Broader terms: hill
Narrower terms: anthill, formicary, kopje, koppie, molehill
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: могила (mogila) — small mound
- Bulgarian: хълмче (hǎlmče) — small mound
- Chinese Mandarin: 小山丘 (xiǎo shānqiū) — small mound
- Chinese Mandarin: 小丘 (xiǎoqiū) — small mound
- Czech: pahorek — small mound
- Dutch: heuvel — small mound
- Esperanto: altaĵeto — small mound
- Finnish: kumpare — small mound
- Finnish: knööli — small mound
- French: monticule — small mound
- French: tertre — small mound
- Galician: outeiro — small mound
- Georgian: ბორცვი (borcvi) — small mound
- Georgian: გორაკი (goraḳi) — small mound
- German: Hügel — small mound
- German: kleiner Hügel — small mound
- German: Hügelchen — small mound
- German: Hubbel — small mound
- German: Anhöhe — small mound
- German: Buckel — small mound
- German: Kopf — small mound
- Hungarian: halom — small mound
- Hungarian: dombocska — small mound
- Icelandic: hóll — small mound
- Japanese: 小山 (koyama) — small mound
- Latin: tumulus — small mound
- Māori: upane — small mound
- Māori: karapuke — small mound
- Māori: tapuke — small mound
- Norwegian: kolle — small mound
- Plautdietsch: Humpel — small mound
- Polish: pagórek — small mound
- Portuguese: outeiro — small mound
- Punjabi: ਟੇਕਰੀ (ṭekrī) — small mound
- Russian: холм (xolm) — small mound
- Russian: хо́лмик (xólmik) — small mound
- Russian: буго́р (bugór) — small mound
- Russian: бугоро́к (bugorók) — small mound
- Russian: го́рка (górka) — small mound
- Russian: приго́рок (prigórok) — small mound
- Russian: со́пка (sópka) — small mound
- Spanish: otero — small mound
- Swedish: knalle — small mound
- Ottoman Turkish: كومه (küme) — small mound
- Chinese Mandarin: 圓丘 /圆丘 (yuánqiū) — underwater hill
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