Knell

Definitions: Knell

Knell

Noun

1. The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something.

Verb

1. Ring, as of bells announcing death.

2. Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church".

Date "knell" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: Knell

Synonym: ring (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interment	Verb: inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn.
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.
Lamentation	Mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and ashes; lachrymatory; knell; deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium; threne; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade; ullalulla.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Knell

English words defined with "knell": Death knell ♦ Knelled, Knelling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "knell": Curfew Bell ♦ Elegy ♦ Freedom ♦ knell stone. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Death Knell (reference) Death Knell III (reference) Death Knell of the Panama Canal? (reference) Devil's Knell (reference) Little Knell (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Philip Knell. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Knell" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.81% of the time. "Knell" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	55.81%	24	71,196
Noun (proper)	44.19%	19	80,337
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "knell" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Knell	Last name	300	23,702
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "knell": death knell ♦ strike the death knell of ♦ toll the knell. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "knell": death-knell.
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.

Language		Translations for "knell"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kambanë vdekjeje, shenjë e kobshme. (various references)

Arabic		‏قرعة الناقوس, ‏قرع أجراس الجنازة. (various references)

Bulgarian		камбанен звън (ding, peal), оповестявам с камбанен звън, знамение (auspice, foretoken, omen, portent, presage, prognostic, sacrament, sign), бия на умряло, призовавам с камбанен звън, погребален звън (death bell, toll). (various references)

Chinese		喪鐘 . (various references)

Czech		umíráèek (passing bell). (various references)

Farsi		ناقوس عزارابصدادراوردن , صدایی زنگ , صدای ضربه ناقوس . (various references)

French		glas. (various references)

German		totenglocke. (various references)

Greek		νεκρικόσ κωδών, πένθιμη κωδωνοκρουσία, ηχώ πενθιμώσ. (various references)

Hungarian		lélekharang szava, lélekharang (death bell, knoll, last post, passing bell, passing-bell). (various references)

Italian		rintocco funebre. (various references)

Manx		clag merriu. (various references)

Pig Latin		ellknay

Portuguese		rótula (knee cap, lattice, scute, scutum), dobre a finados. (various references)

Romanian		sunet trist, sunet tânguios, suna trist, suna prevestitor, suna de înmormântare, semn rãu, prevestire rea (presage), dangãt (ringing, toll). (various references)

Russian		похоронный звон (death bell, death-bell, passing bell, passing-bell). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zvoniti (chime, ding, ring, tinkle), rđav znak, pogrebna zvona, oglasiti (advertise, advertize, announce, herald, peal). (various references)

Spanish		toque de difuntos (passing bell), doble (ambidextrous, disingenuous, double, dual, duplex, ringer, stand in, twofold). (various references)

Swedish		varsel (foreboding, foretoken, indication, notice, omen, portent, precursor, presage, sign, warning), själaringning (death bell, passing bell), ringa själaringning, förebud (auspice, foreboding, harbinger, Herald, omen, portent, presage, prognostication). (various references)

Thai		เสียงระฆังในงานศพ, ลางร้าย (ill-starred). (various references)

Turkish		matem çanı, cenaze çanı, ölüm haberi. (various references)

Ukranian		скорботний плач, похоронний дзвін (toll). (various references)

Vietnamese		h�"i chuông báo tử điềm cáo chung. (various references)

Welsh		cnu\l, clu+l. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "knell": knelled, knelling, knells. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Knell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anell, Inell, kdel, Khel, Kinell, kjel, knal, knall, kneal, knelp, knlle, Knoell, knold, krell, kvell, kwell, necl, neill, nel, nelk, nell, nelle, Nello, nelo, nelp, nelw, Niell, nkel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "knell" (pronounced ne"l)
3	n e" l	personnel, Snell.
2	-e" l	bedel, befell, Bel, bell, Belle, cartel, Carvel, Cel, cell, clientele, compel, del, dell, dispel, dwell, El, Ell, Excel, expel, farewell, fell, ferrel, foretell, gazelle, gel, hell, hotel, impel, jell, lapel, Mademoiselle, Marcel, materiel, Mel, Mell, misspell, Morel, motel, Noel, nouvelle, outsell, pastel, propel, quell, repel, resell, retell, sell, Selle, shell, smell, spell, swell, Tel, tell, well, yell.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-k-l-l-n"
	-2 letters: elk, ell, ken, lek.
	-3 letters: el, en, ne.
	Words containing the letters "e-k-l-l-n"
	+1 letter: knells.
	+2 letters: inkwell, knelled, knolled, knoller.
	+3 letters: alkaline, balkline, bullneck, glenlike, inkwells, knelling, knollers, limekiln, linelike, linkable, lionlike, unlikely.
	+4 letters: balklines, bullnecks, flintlike, kennelled, kernelled, limekilns, nickelled, plantlike, silkaline, silkoline, snaillike, unlikable, unskilled.
	+5 letters: alkalinize, animallike, bankrolled, bankroller, bullnecked, gentlefolk, junglelike, kallikrein, keelhaling, kennelling, kernelling, kindlessly, landlocked, littleneck, needlelike, nickelling, painkiller, planetlike, silkalines, silkolines, tunnellike, unladylike, unlikelier, unslakable, winterkill.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 6E 65 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.- -. . .-.. .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01101110 01100101 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#110 &#101 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 006E 0065 006C 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4580717878

Non-English Dictionaries with "Knell"

Language	Coverage	Language Translations
Albanian	fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim	shqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿�"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець
Arabic	‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان	arabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, � าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập
Bulgarian	речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод	bulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保� 利亚, bulharský, bulgare, �'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri
Chinese	字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译	kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита�"ць
Czech	slovník, definice, překlad	çek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc
French	dictionnaire, définition, traduction	frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig
German	wörterbuch, Übersetzung	gjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, �"ερμανός, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, � าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr
Greek	λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση	‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l� kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b� gi� gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, Groegwr
Hungarian	szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás	‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri
Italian	dizionario, definizione, traduzione	‏الإيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏إيطالي, ‏شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, � าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі�"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка
Manx	fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght	gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект
Portuguese	dicionário, definição, tradução	portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, � ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B�"-đ� o-nha tiếng B�"-đ� o-nha
Romanian	dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire	rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун
Russian	словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение	‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga
Serbo-Croatian	leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje	塞�"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ� าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, � าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย
Spanish	diccionario, definición, traducción	spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова
Swedish	ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning	suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน � าษาและวั�'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ�"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển
Thai	พจนานุกรม	泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, � าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та�"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський
Turkish	sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme	turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ
Ukranian	словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення	乌克兰
Vietnamese	có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th� nh sự giải thích	vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, �'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'�"тнамець, в'�"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt
Welsh	geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad	shkel premtimin, populli i uellsit, ik pa paguar, i uellsit, gjuha e uellsit, ‏تهرب من دفع الرهان, ‏الولزية لغة إقليم ويلز, ‏ويلزي, уелски, уелски език, не си плащам дълга, измъквам се от задължение, 威�"士, 威爾士語 , waleský, waleština, gallois, walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, walesi, gallese, Bretnagh, galês, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, galés, walesisk, galler ile ilgili, gal dili, bahisleri ödemeden kaçmak, ödemeden kaçmak, sözünü tutmamak, şartları yerine getirmemek, у�"льський, не віддати гроші, валлійська мова, валлійський, валлійці, Cymreig
English	Dictionary, Definition, Translation	anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, ‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, � าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg

Expression	Frequency per Day
knell	65
condominium knell ridge	7
david knell	4
death knell	2
knell w.c	2
ann knell mary	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Knell

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Knell

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Interment

Killing

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4B 6E 65 6C 6C

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01001011 01101110 01100101 01101100 01101100

&#75 &#110 &#101 &#108 &#108

004B 006E 0065 006C 006C

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