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Noun
Your favorite comfortable Connecticut town has a deep Hollywood history, with films ranging from The Music Man to The Lost Boys all relying on those same winding streets and grassy knolls.—Mara Reinstein, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025 The bending roads and lilting knolls of College Grove, Tennessee, about 45 minutes south of Nashville, are still verdant in the late August heat.—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025 My Spanish-style duplex sat perched on a knoll just below the Griffith Observatory.—Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2025 The widow’s house has become our grassy knoll.—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for knoll
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English knol, from Old English cnoll; akin to Old Norse knollr mountaintop
Verb
Middle English, probably alteration of knellen to knell
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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