knelling
Sounding funeral bells
Knelling is the slow, solemn ringing of a bell, especially to announce a death or funeral.
Church bells knell to mark someone's passing.
The word extends to anything that signals an end: The factory closure was the knelling of the town's prosperity.
Related to the noun knell.
Cessation of life
- tollFee for passage
- funeralService honoring the dead
- mourningPeriod following loss
- passingMoving by or temporary
requiem · churchyard · burial · coffin · hearse · procession · dirge · somber
Hollow resonating instrument
- towerTall slender edifice
- steeplePointed church tower
- belfryTower containing bells
- churchPlace of Christian worship
cathedral · sexton · campanile · peal · chime · bronze · rope · clapper
Unavoidable grim fate
- warningAlert about danger
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- portentSign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
ending · finality · fate · premonition · dread · impending · inevitable · decline
death
Cessation of life
passing · requiem · churchyard · burial · coffin · hearse · procession · dirge · somber · grave
bell
Hollow resonating instrument
church · cathedral · sexton · campanile · peal · chime · bronze · rope · clapper · vespers
doom
Unavoidable grim fate
- warningAlert about danger
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- portentSign of future calamity
harbinger · ending · finality · fate · premonition · dread · impending · inevitable · decline · demise
knellingcaroling
Festive neighborhood singing
jingling · tinkling · chiming · ringing out · fanfare