knell
v.
ring a funeral bell; ring in a mournful manner; signal disaster, sound a warning
n.
mournful ringing of a bell (i.e. at a funeral); evil omen
knell
Noun
1. the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
(hypernym) bell, toll
(derivation) ring
Verb
1. ring as in announcing death
(hypernym) ring, peal
2. make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"
(synonym) ring
(hypernym) sound
(hyponym) toll
(cause) sound, go
Knell
(v. t.)
To summon, as by a knell.
(n.)
To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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knell
n.
ماتمي گھنٹے کي آواز, ماتمي گھنٹي, پيام اجل, موت کي نشاني
knell
Synonyms and related words:
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, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, 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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.