Hill vs Knoll - What's the difference?
hill | knoll |
An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills , the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
A sloping road.
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(label) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
(label) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
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(label) The pitcher’s mound.
To form into a heap or mound.
To heap or draw earth around plants.
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1000 English basic words
A small mound or rounded hill.
* Sir Walter Scott
To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
To sound, like a bell; to knell.
* Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
* Byron
* Tennyson
As nouns the difference between hill and knoll
is that hill is an elevated location smaller than a mountain while knoll is a small mound or rounded hill.As verbs the difference between hill and knoll
is that hill is to form into a heap or mound while knoll is to ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.As a proper noun Hill
is Capitol Hill; the US Congress.hill
English
(wikipedia hill)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* downhill * dunghill * head for the hills * hilly * hilling * hillock * hill of beans * hillside * hill station * king of the hill * over the hill * uphillExternal links
*Verb
(en verb)knoll
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)- On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
Etymology 2
Imitative, or variant of (knell).Verb
(en verb)- If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.
- For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll .
- Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.