OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 43603

death knell

/dɛθ nɛl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sentencia de muerte
A marker, sign or omen foretelling the imminent end, death or destruction of something.
"It is the death knell of an orchestra if it doesn't have its own home," he says.
The thought was a death-knell to Helen's last hope, and she sank down, quite overcome;[…]
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