How to pronounce“knell”in English
personnel, the Iranians are claiming that they destroyed four of the targets they had set out to hit. >> Yolande, thank you very much. Yolande
Knell in Jerusalem. Well, it's been a very heavy past 24 hours of strikes in the south of Lebanon by Israel. Let's get the latest from our
Middle East correspondent in Beirut. Lina Sinjab, Lina, just tell us what's been going on particularly around the city of Tyre.
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Definitions of “knell”
To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
“I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee, And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing, Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]”
To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
“Let thy friends be as the dead in doom, And build to them a final tomb; Let the starred shade that nightly falls Still celebrate their funerals, And the bell of beetle and of bee Knell their melodious memory.”
The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).
“[…]he is able to pierce a corselet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery.”
A sign of the end or demise of something or someone.
“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.”
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