knell
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
Types & categories
- bell hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
ring as in announcing death
Types & categories
- ring hypernym
Related & opposite
- knell derivation
Sense 3 verb
make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
Ring the bells
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- sound causes
- knell derivation
- ringing derivation
- bell ringer derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | knell |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | knell |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bell |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | knell |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ring |
| 3 | causes | Related & opposite | sound |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | knell |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ringing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bell ringer |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | toll |