What does Knoll mean?
Definitions for Knoll
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Princeton's WordNet
knoll, mound, hillock, hummock, hammocknoun
a small natural hill
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Knollnoun
A little hill. Robert Ainsworth
To Knollverb
To ring the bell, generally for a funeral.
Etymology: from knell.
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death,
And so his knell is knoll’d. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.To Knollverb
To sound as a bell.
If ever you have look’d on better days,
If ever been where bells have knoll’d to church. William Shakespeare.
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knoll
A knoll is a small hill or mound, often in a grassy or open landscape. It can also refer to a small rounded hill or mound of a specific material like sand or stone. It's typically larger than a hillock but smaller than a mountain.
Webster Dictionary
Knollnoun
a little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill
Knollverb
to ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing
Knollverb
to sound, as a bell; to knell
Knollnoun
the tolling of a bell; a knell
Etymology: [OE. knollen, AS. cnyllan. See Knell.]
Wikidata
Knoll
Knoll is a design firm that produces office systems, seating, files and storage, tables and desks, textiles, and accessories for office and for the home. The company also manufactures furniture for the home by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Frank Gehry, Maya Lin and Eero Saarinen under the company's KnollStudio division. Over 40 Knoll designs can be found in the permanent design collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Knoll
nōl, n. a round hillock: the top of a hill. [A.S. cnol; Ger. knollen, a knob, lump.]
Knoll
nōl. Same as Knell.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
knoll
The top of a rounded hill; the head of a bank, or the most elevated part of a submarine shoal. [Perhaps derived from nowl, a provincialism for head.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
KNOLL
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Knoll is ranked #3697 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Knoll surname appeared 9,608 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Knoll.
94.7% or 9,103 total occurrences were White.
2% or 197 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.3% or 131 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1% or 97 total occurrences were Asian.
0.7% or 71 total occurrences were Black.
0% or 9 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Knoll in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Knoll in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Knoll in a Sentence
Terry Norman is in a sense the second gunman on the grassy knoll ... He's been kind of a handy bogeyman or a red herring.
Melissa Knoll was sleeping with the enemy.
I don't do the sexy stuff, i don't come out and say, 'I know who the Grassy Knoll assassin is!' I'm the guy that goes into the county records building and looks up deed records. Most people don't get too wound up over that.
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