Knell

Verb

 * 1)  to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
 * 2)  to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.

Noun

 * 1) the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
 * 2) * 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, opening sentence:
 * The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

Derived terms

 * death knell

Adjectives for Knell
doleful; perpetual; inevitable.

Thesaurus
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

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: kumistaa


 * Polish: bić w dzwon,
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: (high pitch),  kumistaa (low pitch)


 * Polish: bić w dzwon,
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Noun

 * Czech: umíráček (for a funeral)
 * Finnish:, ,  ,  kellonsoitto
 * Italian:


 * Polish: podzwonne
 * Scottish Gaelic: