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Resound vs Knell - What's the difference?

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Resound is a related term of knell.


In lang=en terms the difference between resound and knell

is that resound is to throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo while knell is to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.

As verbs the difference between resound and knell

is that resound is to sound again or resound can be to reverberate with sound or noise while knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

As a noun knell is

the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

resound

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en verb)
  • to sound again
  • to echo a sound
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) resownen, from (etyl) resoner, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to reverberate with sound or noise
  • The street resounded with the noise of the children's game.
  • to make a reverberating sound
  • The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
  • To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.
  • To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, / Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound .
    Derived terms
    * resounded * resounding

    Anagrams

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    knell

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
  • * , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
  • Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
  • to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
  • * 1750 , , Line 1
  • The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

    Derived terms

    * death knell