Definition of knoll
: a small round hill : mound
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Set atop a knoll in the Bird Streets neighborhood, the two-story contemporary blends sleek architectural details with a range of high-end materials.
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Soft ridges sloped down to the water in a subtle cascade of rocky knolls and tundra pockets.
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The knob was a small rocky knoll, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichen.
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The pre-fab warehouses of Dragonland are a church to the gun, a fort on its knoll looking over Garbage Hill, to Pike's Peak.
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It was born on Nov. 22, 1963, on that grassy knoll in Dallas, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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In contrast, Nike's photo has no grassy knoll in the foreground.
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Shuster then walked, alone, to a grassy knoll near the curling venue in Gangneung, South Korea.
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That road is flanked on one side by a meadow with waving, waist-high grass and on the other by a knoll of live oaks where a herd of axis deer greets visitors.
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Origin and Etymology of knoll
Middle English knol, from Old English cnoll; akin to Old Norse knollr mountaintop
Other Geology Terms
anthracite, boulder, cwm, erratic, igneous, intrusive, mesa, sedimentary, silt, swale
Origin and Etymology of knoll
Middle English, probably alteration of knellen to knell
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