knoll
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7.2
- noun
- /nəʊl/
- The children loved playing on the small knoll during our picnic in the park.
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Watch on YouTubeI found a little spearhead sitting on top of this little Knoll.
- I found a little spearhead sitting on top of this little Knoll.
- So the girl walks down this Knoll down and when she gets down close, she gets really close.
- I'm standing on a grassy Knoll area.
- A culture asks what happened on the grassy Knoll.
- At least one other is very likely in the grassy Knoll area.
- We didn't know it at the time, but we always invaded a a Knoll or a hill if if you've been out San Clemente Island.
Examples
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Goeth surveys the site from a knoll, clearly pleased with it.
Fiction book (1993) -
The field and the side of the knoll were already in the shade.
Fiction book (1996) -
Our position is here, right on this knoll.
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Half go in from over there, half from behind the knoll.
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If the reservoir were full, the knoll would have been an island.
Fiction book (1995) -
But Joseph stopped on a small grassy knoll just before the trees began.
Fiction book (1990) -
A figure now stands at the top of the knoll with the flock of sheep and a young boy.
Fiction book (1994) -
A friend and I were sitting atop a knoll in the Brooks Range in northern Alaska on a June evening.
Academic text (2009) -
One hot afternoon, I parked my bike on a high, grassy knoll overlooking a handball court in Forest Park.
Fiction book (1993) -
Joe struggled up the knoll where Teddy was buried, breathing hard, hair plastered to his forehead.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
40
1.7
A small raised area of earth or stones
3
5.2
A small low hill with gentle sides
1
8.7
A small rounded mound that rises above low ground
1
9.6
A small hill covered with trees
A small hill with a rounded top
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Knoll comes from the Old English word cnoll, which meant a small, round 'hill' or 'mound'. So a knoll today is still a little rounded hill—think of a grassy bump you can roll down to remember it.