Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To ring mournfully; knell.
- intransitive verb To ring or sound (a bell, for example) mournfully; knell.
- noun A knell.
- noun A small rounded hill or mound; a hillock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To ring, as a bell; especially, to ring slowly, for or as for a funeral; toll; knell.
- To ring or sound a knell for; warn or draw by the sound of a bell.
- To sound, as a bell; ring.
- noun The ringing of a bell: as, the curfew knoll.
- noun The top or crown of a hill; more generally, a small, gently rounded hill or mount.
- noun A turnip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
- noun rare The tolling of a bell; a knell.
- intransitive verb To sound, as a bell; to knell.
- transitive verb To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
mound orrounded hill . - noun A
knell . - verb To
ring (abell )mournfully : toknell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small natural hill
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Love the vintage farah slacks and penny loafers our shooter from the grassy knoll is wearing on front cover.
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This piece which I own, consisting of nearly 20 acres on top of a knoll, is just 15 minutes from the nearest town yet has unobstructed views extending at least 30 miles in every direction.
Boing Boing 2009
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A sun on wand in knoll of sand she showed, i. 217; x.
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“A sun (face) on wand (neck) in knoll of sand (hips) she showed” etc,
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At last the whole cloud falls down over a knoll – all at once – the next instant the knoll is entirely covered with gray larks, pretty red-gray-white bullfinches, speckled starlings and greenish yellow titmice.
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When it comes to American healthcare, the biggest grassy knoll is right where you’d expect to find it - in suburbia.
Matthew Yglesias » Public Health Versus Health Care Financing 2007
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Re: When it comes to American healthcare, the biggest grassy knoll is right where you’d expect to find it - in suburbia.
Matthew Yglesias » Public Health Versus Health Care Financing 2007
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It sat on what she would have termed a knoll rather than a hill, with the front slope tamed into step-down terraces decked with shrubs she imagined put on a hell of a show in the spring and summer.
Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007
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The buildings on the knoll were a gray-black stain with flickers of light here and there.
Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986
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Of the 720 acres within the city limits, 270 acres lie at a considerable height above the river and constitute what are known as the knoll or uplands of Hoboken.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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