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What (who) is knell - definition
knell
FAMILY NAME
n. to sound, toll the knell
knell
FAMILY NAME
I. n.
Death-bell, passing-bell, signal of doom or death.
II. v. n.
Knoll, sound warningly, sound with doom.
Knell
FAMILY NAME
·vt To summon, as by a knell.
II. Knell ·noun To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
III. Knell ·noun The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.
Examples of use of knell
1. The death knell for the traditional lightbulb has been sounded.
2. Or is this the death–knell for quality journalism?
3. And beware the cliched death knell for cool: It turned corporate.
4. He warned that Afghanistan could sound the death knell‘‘ for the alliance.
5. Instead of being a death knell for the earmark, however, Conkling said Rear Adm.