Meaning of Knell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).
3. A sign of the end or demise of something or someone.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“[…]he is able to pierce a corselet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery.”

“I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,”

“But at the close of the war there was less thought of what [Britain] had retained than of what she had lost. She was parted from her American Colonies; and at the moment such a parting seemed to be the knell of her greatness.”

“At Ballymacarrett, the main line diverges to the right on its way to Newcastle. All services were discontinued on it in 1950, and the abandonment order finally rang the knell of faint hopes that services would be restored as far as Comber, […].”

“The internet sounds the knell for conventional brands, predicts Professor Alec Reed, who has set up an Academy of Enterprise to chart the emerging individual economy. By making price and other comparisons ever easier, the internet strips them of mystique and turns them into commodities.”

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