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noun nəʊlnoʊl A small hill or mound. 小山 Example sentencesExamples - The two were fencing on top of a grassy knoll, with mountains in the distance.
- After some distance the trail rose sharply, and ended in a grassy glade atop a knoll.
- A couple of hundred feet above us, on a small knoll, stood a deserted fort, a relic from the French occupation.
- Perched on a knoll at 6,400 feet, the hut looks out onto a line of ridges where the subalpine forest climbs to 7,800 feet before giving way to the granite flanks of the Caucasus.
- Ahead were more hills, more little valleys, more slopes and hollows and knolls.
- The village is perched on a knoll above the spume, and its tall houses seem to turn their backs on the sea.
- She arrived a little before Kayla and laid out a blanket on a grassy knoll overlooking the lake.
- With picnic blankets, hampers and candles in safety cups, the visitors began taking up their positions on the grassy knoll.
- The first hour today was one part exhilaration, nine parts exhaustion, as he demonstrated how to inch sideways up a snowy knoll in skis.
- Situated on a high knoll - Black Craig - it was clearly an excellent defensive vantage point providing views over the surrounding countryside.
- I made an unusually gentle landing for a person of my size in a wild patch of sagebrush on the top of huge knoll.
- He sat down next to me on the grassy knoll by Tommy's grave.
- The species also extends to several of the rocky knolls in the area.
- Cows and herdsmen alike shun the warm sand of a track bordered with withered sedge, to hide in the shade of an oakwood on a nearby knoll.
- Some reports said the first plan would have involved removing most of the trees from the picturesque wooded knoll overlooking the harbour.
- The lodge is built on a small knoll, overlooking the main waterhole.
- Leave the road and take a track which runs to the left, leaving it almost immediately to follow a path which runs south round a knoll.
- The 24-metre high mast was to be located on a small tree-topped knoll above the Owenmore River.
- This walk follows a circular route around an irregularly shaped tarn, through broadleaf woodland and shady conifers and across grassy knolls nibbled by sheep.
- From the bealach we climbed up through some trees to a rocky knoll from where another path eventually zig-zagged its way to the grassy summit.
Synonyms hillock, mound, rise, hummock, hill, hump, knob, tor, tump, barrow, outcrop, bank, ridge, dune, elevation, acclivity, eminence Geology drumlin Scottish brae South African koppie
OriginOld English cnoll 'hilltop', of Germanic origin; related to German Knolle 'clod, lump, tuber' and Dutch knol 'tuber, turnip'. Rhymesbarcarole, bole, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, condole, console, control, dhole, dole, droll, enrol (US enroll), extol, foal, goal, hole, Joel, kohl, mol, mole, Nicole, parol, parole, patrol, pole, poll, prole, rôle, roll, scroll, Seoul, shoal, skoal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, thole, Tirol, toad-in-the-hole, toll, troll, vole, whole OriginMiddle English: probably an imitative alteration of knell. nounnōlnoʊl A small hill or mound. 小山 Example sentencesExamples - Ahead were more hills, more little valleys, more slopes and hollows and knolls.
- The 24-metre high mast was to be located on a small tree-topped knoll above the Owenmore River.
- She arrived a little before Kayla and laid out a blanket on a grassy knoll overlooking the lake.
- He sat down next to me on the grassy knoll by Tommy's grave.
- Leave the road and take a track which runs to the left, leaving it almost immediately to follow a path which runs south round a knoll.
- This walk follows a circular route around an irregularly shaped tarn, through broadleaf woodland and shady conifers and across grassy knolls nibbled by sheep.
- Situated on a high knoll - Black Craig - it was clearly an excellent defensive vantage point providing views over the surrounding countryside.
- Cows and herdsmen alike shun the warm sand of a track bordered with withered sedge, to hide in the shade of an oakwood on a nearby knoll.
- After some distance the trail rose sharply, and ended in a grassy glade atop a knoll.
- From the bealach we climbed up through some trees to a rocky knoll from where another path eventually zig-zagged its way to the grassy summit.
- I made an unusually gentle landing for a person of my size in a wild patch of sagebrush on the top of huge knoll.
- The village is perched on a knoll above the spume, and its tall houses seem to turn their backs on the sea.
- With picnic blankets, hampers and candles in safety cups, the visitors began taking up their positions on the grassy knoll.
- The two were fencing on top of a grassy knoll, with mountains in the distance.
- The species also extends to several of the rocky knolls in the area.
- The lodge is built on a small knoll, overlooking the main waterhole.
- A couple of hundred feet above us, on a small knoll, stood a deserted fort, a relic from the French occupation.
- Some reports said the first plan would have involved removing most of the trees from the picturesque wooded knoll overlooking the harbour.
- Perched on a knoll at 6,400 feet, the hut looks out onto a line of ridges where the subalpine forest climbs to 7,800 feet before giving way to the granite flanks of the Caucasus.
- The first hour today was one part exhilaration, nine parts exhaustion, as he demonstrated how to inch sideways up a snowy knoll in skis.
Synonyms hillock, mound, rise, hummock, hill, hump, knob, tor, tump, barrow, outcrop, bank, ridge, dune, elevation, acclivity, eminence
OriginOld English cnoll ‘hilltop’, of Germanic origin; related to German Knolle ‘clod, lump, tuber’ and Dutch knol ‘tuber, turnip’. OriginMiddle English: probably an imitative alteration of knell. |