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Definitions: Death Knell |
Death KnellNoun1. An omen of death or destruction. 2. A bell rung to announce a death. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Death KnellSynonym: death bell (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Killing | Cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "death knell": strike the death knell of. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
death knell | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "death knell"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Manx | clag baaish (death bell, passing bell). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eathday ellknay.(various references) | |
Turkish | ölüm çanı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Death Knell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: death nell, deathknell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-k-l-l-n-t" | |
-3 letters: kantele, knelled, latened, lethean, thanked. | |
-4 letters: alkene, aneled, ankled, anklet, anteed, daleth, delate, dental, elated, ethane, halted, handle, hanked, hanted, hantle, healed, heated, helled, hented, lateen, lathed, leaden, leaked, leaned, lethal, talked, tanked, thenal. | |
-5 letters: akene, allee, anele, ankle, anted, dealt, death, delta, eaten, eland, elate, enate, haled, hated, kheda, knead, kneed, kneel, knell, knelt, laden, ladle, laked, lated, laten, lathe, latke, leant, lethe, naked, naled, neath, taken, telae, thane, thank. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 61 74 68 4B 6E 65 6C 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01001011 01101110 01100101 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e a t h   K n e l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0061 0074 0068 004B 006E 0065 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387167867424580717878 |
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