knoll

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /nəʊl/

Etymology 1

Old English cnoll (“summit”). 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

knoll (plural knolls)

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

Translations

small mound

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小山丘 (cmn) (xiǎo shānqiū), 小山丘 (cmn) (xiǎo qiū)

• Finnish: kumpare (fi), knööli (fi)
• French: monticule (fr) m
• German: Hügel (de) m

• Hungarian: halom (hu), dombocska (hu)
• Japanese: 小山 (ja) (こやま, koyama)
• Latin: tumulus (la) m
• Russian: холм (ru) (xolm) m, холмик (ru) (xólmik) m, бугор (ru) (bugór) m, бугорок (ru) (bugorók) m, горка (ru) (górka) f, пригорок (ru) (prigórok) m, сопка (ru) (sópka) f
• Swedish: knalle (sv) c

Etymology 2

Imitative, or variant of knell.

Noun

knoll (plural knolls)

1. A knell.

Verb

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

1. To ring (a bell) mournfully: to knell.
2. To sound, like a bell; to knell.

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   • Byron

     For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.