Knell

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /nÉ›l/
• Rhymes: -É›l
• Homophones: Nell

Full definition of knell

Verb

1. (intransitive) to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
• Beaumont and Fletchernot worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
• Edward_Bulwer-Lytton,_1st_Baron_Lytton, The New Timon. A romance of London, Chapter 86Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
  Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone.
2. (transitive) to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.

Noun

1. the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
• 1750, Thomas Gray, , Line 1The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

Derived terms

• death knell