Knell vs Dong - What's the difference?
knell | dong |
to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
* 1750 , , Line 1
As verbs the difference between knell and dong
is that knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll while dong is to resound, reverberate, echo, boom.As a noun knell
is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.knell
English
Verb
(en verb)- not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
- Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
Noun
(en noun)- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
