Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The tolling of a bell announcing death.
- n. idiomatic, by extension A sign or omen foretelling the death or destruction of something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{1}.
- n. A sign or harbinger of the end, death, or passing away of anything.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an omen of death or destruction
- n. a bell rung to announce a death
Examples
“That more or less sounded the death knell in the stories about the Boulevard Rochechouart affair.”
“In 1525, Zwingili sounded the death knell of the contemplative ideal of life when he said: “In things of this life, the laborer is most like to God.””
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