knell
C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
LiteraryRegister
The solemn sound of a bell rung slowly to mark a death or ending.
The single knell of the church bell told the village that the old man had died.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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