death bell

1. 1.

   a bell rung to announce a death

   Synonymsdeath knell

   Broaderbell

Questions about death bell

What does death bell mean?

death bell means "a bell rung to announce a death".

What is another word for death bell?

Close synonyms include death knell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is death bell a common word?

death bell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.