Other forms: knolls
A knoll is a small rounded hill. A grassy knoll, on the knoll, a wooded knoll.
It is small and rounded rather than steep, and the word is chiefly descriptive and slightly literary. The grassy knoll is fixed in English by the Kennedy assassination and is now almost impossible to use without the association. Note that knoll appears in many British place names; and that the word is Old English and unchanged.
1nounknollA small rounded hill.
“We climbed a small knoll behind the farm to watch the sunset.”
knoll is a landform.
Also accepted in games: hummock
KNOLL → a BOWL turned over in a field
A bowl turned upside down in the middle of the field, and grass over it.
hooks ontobowl
Old English cnoll meant a summit or hilltop, from a Germanic root meaning a lump. Dutch knol, a tuber, comes from the same lump.
Proto-Germanic
*knudan-
Old English
cnoll — summit
Middle English
knol
English, today
knoll
Built from
From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic knudan-, knudla-, knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta. Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA