English - Turkish
Definition of death-knell in English Turkish dictionary
- Birinin olduğunu işaret eden can sesi
- ölüm haberi
- ölüm çanı
English - English
Definition of death-knell in English English dictionary
- Alternative spelling of death knell
- A sign or omen foretelling the death or destruction of something
It is the death knell of an orchestra if it doesn't have its own home, he says.
- The tolling of a bell announcing death
Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death-knell.
- If you say that something sounds the death knell for a particular person or thing, you mean it will cause that person or thing to fail, end, or cease to exist. The tax increase sounded the death knell for the business. a sign that something will soon fail or stop existing death blow (sound/strike/toll) the death knell for/of sth
- a bell rung to announce a death an omen of death or destruction
- an omen of death or destruction
- a bell rung to announce a death