About The Word Knell
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Knell
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What's The Definition Of Knell?
[n] the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
[v] make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church" [v] ring, as of bells announcing death Synonyms | Synonyms for Knell: ring Related Terms | Find terms related to Knell: annihilation | bane | bell | bemoan | bewail | biological death | bong | cessation of life | change ringing | chime | chiming | chink | clang | clanging | clangor | clank | clanking | clinical death | clink | coronach | crossing the bar | curtains | dead march | death | death bell | death knell | death song | debt of nature | decease | demise | departure | deplore | ding | ding-a-ling | dingdong | dinging | dingle | dirge | dissolution | dong | donging | doom | dying | ebb of life | elegize | elegy | end | end of life | ending | epicedium | eternal rest | eulogy | exit | expiration | extinction | extinguishment | final summons | finger of death | funeral march | funeral oration | funeral ring | funeral song | give sorrow words | going | going off | gong | grave | graveside oration | grieve | hand of death | jangle | jaws of death | jingle | jinglejangle | jingle-jangle | jingling | keen | knelling | lament | last debt | last muster | last rest | last roundup | last sleep | leaving life | loss of life | making an end | moan | monody | mourn | passing | passing away | passing bell | passing over | peal | peal ringing | pealing | perishing | quietus | release | repine | requiem | rest | reward | ring | ring changes | ringing | sentence of death | shades of death | shadow of death | sigh | sing the blues | sleep | somatic death | sorrow | sound | sound a knell | summons of death | threnode | threnody | ting | ting-a-ling | tingle | tingling | tink | tinkle | tinkling | tinnitus | tintinnabulate | toll | tolling | weep over See Also | bell | go | peal | sound | toll Knell In Webster's Dictionary \Knell\, n. [OE. knel, cnul, AS. cnyll, fr. cnyllan to
sound a bell; cf. D. & G. knallen to clap, crack, G. & Sw.
knall a clap, crack, loud sound, Dan. knalde to clap, crack.
Cf. {Knoll}, n. & v.]
The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a
person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively,
a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of
anything.
The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who.
--Shak.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. --Gray.
\Knell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Knelling}.] [OE. knellen, knillen, As. cnyllan. See {Knell}, n.] To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen. Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee. --Beau. & Fl. Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, ``alone''. --Ld. Lytton. \Knell\, v. t. To summon, as by a knell. Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. --Coleridge. |
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