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Definition: Knoll |
KnollNoun1. A small natural hill. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "knoll" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
Synonyms: KnollSynonyms: hammock (n), hillock (n), hummock (n), mound (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Height | Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Knoll |
| English words defined with "knoll": Hommock ♦ Knolled, Knolling ♦ Sheepback ♦ Toft, Tump. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "knoll": Luggie ♦ sibutramine. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "knoll": Toft. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Map from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Small portion of Sigsbee Escarpment north of Green Knoll. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Forested area on Pine Knoll, Prudence Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Studying internal structure and organisms of coral NOAA scientists Dr. Tony Picciolo, Dave Hardy, and Darrell Knoll. Credit: Small World. |  | The Sheriger family planning their victory garden by reading up on the subject--They had not had a garden for some time--Washington (vicinity), D.C. Feb. 1943 / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Mr. Knoll.. |
 | Summit of Barlow's knoll, Gettysburg. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Elm Knoll, Longfellow House, Pittsfield, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fixing a dried well on the farm of Mrs. Emma Knoll. Grant County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stripped bare by the drought and grasshoppers. Trees on the farm of Mrs. Emma Knoll. Grant County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | W. & J. Sloane National Art Week, 5th Ave. & 47th St., New York City. Leon Knoll. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hawthorne Cedar Knoll School, Hawthorne, New York. Gymnasium exterior I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Nellie Connally | Well, maybe there was. But in my mind, by the time we passed the grassy knoll, got to the grassy knoll, everything that happened in that car had already happened. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Knoll" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 59.26% of the time. "Knoll" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 59.26% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.04% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "knoll" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Knoll | Last name | 3,000 | 3,859 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| India | Knoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | USA | Knoll, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "knoll": coral knoll ♦ Leisure Knoll ♦ Pine Knoll Shore ♦ Pine Knoll Shores ♦ rocky knoll. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "knoll": curfew-knoll. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
knoll | 424 | knoll light factory | 14 |
knoll furniture | 101 | knoll theater willow | 14 |
cedar knoll nj | 64 | gary knoll | 14 |
knoll pharmaceutical | 43 | knoll tashua | 12 |
knoll textile | 40 | morris knoll | 12 |
grassy knoll | 34 | florence knoll | 12 |
green knoll | 34 | forest knoll ca | 12 |
pine knoll shore | 31 | knoll chair | 12 |
knoll country club | 31 | knoll willow | 12 |
beyonce knoll | 28 | bixby knoll | 12 |
pine knoll shore north carolina | 26 | green knoll golf | 11 |
morris knoll high school | 22 | knoll oak school | 11 |
knoll office furniture | 20 | course golf knoll tashua | 11 |
knoll international | 18 | walter knoll | 11 |
14 knoll willow | 17 | knoll projector | 11 |
oak knoll | 17 | knoll pine rental shore | 11 |
knoll lake | 17 | knoll studio | 10 |
knoll inc | 16 | florist knoll walter | 10 |
knoll pharmaceutical company | 16 | white knoll high school | 10 |
cedar knoll | 15 | kapolei knoll | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "knoll"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kodrinë (Foothill, hillock, hummock, hump, Toft), kodër (fell, height, Hill, monticule, rise, tump, tumulus, whale-back), breg (bank, bar, brow, coast, height, hill, hump, shore, side, strand). (various references) | |
Arabic | هضبة صغيرة مدورة, هضبة (eminence, highland, hill, hogback, plateau, rise, socle, tor), تلة هضبة, تل (barrow, down, elevation, heap, highland, hill, hummock, monticule, mound). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хълмче (hillock, hummock, monticule), могилка (hummock), звъня (clang, ding, ding-dong, go, go off, rang), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小丘 (hill). (various references) | |
Czech | kupeèek, kupa (cumulus, pile, stack), vršek (head, hillock, top), pahorek (Hill, hillock, hummock, hump, protuberance, rise), návrší. (various references) | |
Danish | koralmassiv (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll, hardhead). (various references) | |
Dutch | koraalmassa (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll, hardhead), koraalkaap (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll, hardhead). (various references) | |
Farsi | ماهور (Barrow, Dale, Mound), نوک تپه , قله (Acme, Climax, Crest, Culmination, Pap, Peak, Point, Summit, Top, Vertex, Zenith), تیزی یابرامدگی خاک ازاب . (various references) | |
Finnish | kunnas (hill), kumpu (hill, hillock), mäki (hill). (various references) | |
French | tertre, monticule (knob), éminence. (various references) | |
German | niedriger Hügel, Hügelchen (hillock, hillocks, knolls). (various references) | |
Greek | ύψωμα γησ, βουναλάκι, λοφίσκοσ (hillock, hummock, tumulus). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תלולית (cumulus, hillock, hummock, molehill), תל (heap, hillock, mound, pile), כפ" (arch, cap, cupola, dome, skullcap, vault), 'בע" (height, mountain). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dombtető (cop, crest), domb (elevation, eminence, hill, how, hump, kip, mound, Mount, prominence, rise, rising ground). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gumok, bukit kecil (hillock), anak bukit. (various references) | |
Italian | poggio (hillock, hummock), collinetta (hillock, hummock, hump, mound). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 岡 (height, hill, rising ground), 円丘 (hummock), 小山 (hill), 壟 (height, hill, rising ground), 丘 (height, hill, rising ground). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おか (height, hill, rising ground), "う (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), "やま (hill), え"きゅう (hummock). (various references) | |
Manx | tullaghan, sheean (buzz, clamour, fairy hill, noise, report, sound, tone), nabban, nab, cronkan (hillock, small hill). (various references) | |
Maya | buu'. (various references) | |
Norwegian | knaus, haug (heap). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ollknay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pequeno monte de terra, cimo de monte. (various references) | |
Romanian | vârf (acme, apex, cap, climax, crest, cusp, edge, end, head, height, nib, nozzle, peak, pinnacle, point, style, summit, tip, tiptop, top, topping), movilã (Barrow, heap, hillock, hump, knob, mound, rising, tumulus, up), dâmb (eminence, hillock, knob, mound), creastã (aigrette, back, brow, comb, coping, crest, edge, height, hogback, razor edge, ridge, spine, top, tuft), colinã (elevation, eminence, Hill, hillock, knob, mound). (various references) | |
Russian | холм (butte, down, hill, knap, mound). (various references) | |
Scottish | tom (a hillock, eminence, hillock, round heap), gnob (a bunch, hillock, knob, tumour), cnoc (a hillock, hill, hillock). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brežuljak (hill, hummock, monticule, toft). (various references) | |
Spanish | loma (bank, hill, hump). (various references) | |
Swedish | liten kulle (hummock). (various references) | |
Thai | โคก. (various references) | |
Turkish | tepecik (Barrow, Hill, hillock, hummock, knap, kopje, little hill, mound, stigma). (various references) | |
Turkmen | depe (hill, top). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пригірок (monticule), пагорб (hummock, knock, mound, pimple). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gò (barrow, hill, hillock, hummock, hurst, monticle, monticule), đ"i nhỏ. (various references) | |
Welsh | twyn (bush, hill, hillock), tarren (rock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | butte. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "knoll": knolled, knoller, knollers, knolling, knolls, knolly. (additional references) | |
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"Knoll" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: knal, knall, knlle, Knoell, knol, knold, knole, knolle, Knowl, kol, koll, Kololo, kroll, Nkohla, Nkole, Nkrohl, noall, nohl, nol, nola, Nolla, nolo, nonl, nool, nosl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "knoll" (pronounced nō"l) |
| 2 | -ō" l | bole, Boll, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, control, decontrol, dhole, dole, droll, enroll, espanol, extol, foal, goal, hole, sole, soul, stole, stroll, Kohl, mole, ole, parole, patrol, pistole, pole, poll, role, roll, scroll, skoal, thole, tole, toll, troll, whole. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-l-l-n-o" | |
-3 letters: lo, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-l-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: knolls, knolly. | |
+2 letters: knolled, knoller. | |
+3 letters: bankroll, knollers, knolling, lionlike. | |
+4 letters: bankrolls, flintlock, molluskan, silkoline. | |
+5 letters: alkylation, bankrolled, bankroller, flintlocks, gentlefolk, landlocked, outkilling, rollicking, silkolines. | |
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