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Definition and meaning of knell
Definitions
knell (v. trans.)
1.make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification"Ring the bells" "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"
2.ring as in announcing death
3.(literary)sound loudly and sonorously"the bells rang"
knell (n.)
1.the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
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Merriam Webster
KnellKnell (?), 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 stroke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, (figuratively), a warning or harbinger of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything; -- also called death knell.
The dead man's knell
Is there scarce asked for who. Shak.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. Gray.
KnellKnell, 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.
KnellKnell, v. t. To summon, as by a knell.
Each matin bell, the baron saith,
Knells us back to a world of death. Coleridge.
Synonyms
knell (v. trans.)
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See also
knell (v. trans.)
↘ bell push, bell ringer, blare, blaring, cacophony, din, noise, pandemonium, racket, ring, ringer, ringing, ringing sound, row, toller
Phrases
Analogical dictionary
knell (n.)
[not countable]
son de cloche (fr)[Classe]
musique funèbre (fr)[Classe]
bell, toll[Hyper.]
knell, ring - knell, spell doom[Dérivé]
knell (v. tr.)
[literary]
go, sound[Hyper.]
peal, pealing, roll, rolling - ring, ringing, tintinnabulation[Dérivé]
knell (v. tr.)
alarm, sound[Hyper.]
knell - ring, ringing, tintinnabulation - bell ringer, ringer, toller[Dérivé]
go, sound[Cause]
knell (v. tr.)
go off, knell, peal, ring, sound, toll[Hyper.]
knell[Dérivé]
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