Knell

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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 […]”

2. fiil 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.”

3. fiil To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.
4. isim 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.”

5. isim 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.”

6. özel isim A surname.