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弔鐘
ちょうしょう
1. [n]
▶ funeral bell
▶ death knell



History:
2. A 2023-03-16 09:24:30  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5: a funeral bell; 《sound》 a death knell.
1. A* 2023-03-16 07:56:55  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://www.arabnews.jp/article/middle-east/article_83812/
...ひいては民主主義の根幹への弔鐘であるとして反対派は警戒を高めている。
google translate (with full paragraph context):
who see them as a death knell for Israel's system of checks and balances and, by extension, the very foundations of democracy.

https://www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/aik11/2011-10-06/2011100609_01_0.html
資本主義的私的所有の弔鐘が鳴る。
google translate: The death knell of capitalist private property rings.

https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2022-12-14/RMWE12DWLU68
これは最近のベアマーケットラリーには弔鐘だろう
google: This would be a death knell for the bear market rally these days.

Magic the Gathering playing card:
https://www.mint-mall.net/products/detail.php?product_id=480151
債務者の弔鐘》《Debtors' Knell》 

https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=knell
death knell
弔いの鐘、弔鐘
表現パターンdeath bell [knell]
終焉の前兆
表現パターンdeath bell [knell]
単語帳
funeral knell
弔いの鐘


https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/弔鐘

日本語WordNet(英和)での「弔鐘」の英訳
弔鐘
名詞
1 death knell, death bell
死を知らせるために鳴らす鐘

(a bell rung to announce a death)

2 death knell
死や破滅の前兆

(an omen of death or destruction)

3 knell
死や葬式や何かの終わりを告げるためにゆっくり鳴らされる鐘の音

(the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something)
  Comments:
There are a lot of news hits for 弔鐘, a large portion are literal (96 bells for Queen Elizabeth's death), but quite a large number are figurative.
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<gloss>death knell</gloss>

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