knell
Mournful bell sound
A knell is the solemn sound of a bell, especially one rung slowly for a death or funeral.
The word extends to any sound or event signaling the end of something: The factory closure sounded the death knell for the town.
To knell is to ring in this mournful way: Church bells knelled across the valley.
Intense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
requiem · elegy · threnody · keen · taps · funeral · memorial · remembrance
Melodic bell sound
- pealResonant ringing burst
- clangLoud metallic sound
- ringClosed curve shape
- belfryTower containing bells
carillon · clapper · tower · cathedral · church · bronze · resonate · echo
One who foreshadows
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- portentSign of future calamity
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
presage · doom · fate · inevitability · prophecy · warning · herald · augury
Service honoring the dead
- tollingSlow, solemn bell-ringing
- passingMoving by or temporary
- demiseCessation of existence
- coffinBurial container for remains
cemetery · graveyard · mourning · bereavement · pallbearer · shroud · hearse · burial
Serious and worrying
- somberGravely serious in mood
- funerealGloomily solemn in manner
- sepulchralRelating to burial chambers
- mournfulShowing or feeling grief
dignified · stately · reverent · ceremonious · hallowed · pensive · meditative · austere
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- lamentMournful expression of grief
dirge · requiem · elegy · threnody · keen · taps · funeral · memorial · remembrance · condolences
chime
Melodic bell sound
belfry · carillon · clapper · tower · cathedral · church · bronze · resonate · echo · vibrate
harbinger
One who foreshadows
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- portentSign of future calamity
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
foreshadowing · presage · doom · fate · inevitability · prophecy · warning · herald · augury · sign
funeral
Service honoring the dead
coffin · cemetery · graveyard · mourning · bereavement · pallbearer · shroud · hearse · burial · interment
grave
Serious and worrying
- somberGravely serious in mood
- funerealGloomily solemn in manner
- sepulchralRelating to burial chambers
mournful · dignified · stately · reverent · ceremonious · hallowed · pensive · meditative · austere · weighty
- bellscowbell, cowbells, doorbell, handbell, handbells
- funeral musicdirge, requiem, funeral march, funeral hymns, death march
- bell soundsringing, chime, chiming, tolling, pealing
- bass soundsbass note, bass tone, bass drum, bass guitar, bass voice
knellwedding bells
Ceremonial marriage ringing
peal · carillon · chime · fanfare · Christmas bells
knellbirth announcement
Notice of newborn's arrival
reveille · herald · dawn chorus · overture · commencement
knellpeal
Resonant ringing burst
celebration · jubilation · fanfare · rejoicing · triumph
- death knellsBells rung for dying