Usually means: Signal indicating the end near.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word death knell:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. death knell: Merriam-Webster
  2. death knell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. death knell: Collins English Dictionary
  4. death knell: Vocabulary.com
  5. death-knell, death knell: Wordnik
  6. death knell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. death-knell, death knell: Wiktionary
  8. death knell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. death knell: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Death knell, death knell: Dictionary.com
  11. Death knell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. death knell: Rhymezone
  13. death knell: FreeDictionary.org
  14. death knell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. death knell: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. death knell: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. death knell: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. death knell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. death knell: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (death knell)

noun:  The tolling of a bell announcing death.
noun:  (by extension) A marker, sign or omen foretelling the imminent end, death or destruction of something.

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