Related / Similar Words:
chime, gong, doorbell, buzzer, toll, Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell, bell shape, campana, ship's bell Definition: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck;the flared opening of a tubular device;a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer;a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed;the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells";United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922);English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961);a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905);the shape of a bell;(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship''s bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o''clock, either a.m. or p.m.;attach a bell to; "bell cows";
Hyponyms: church bell, cowbell, death knell, death bell, dinner bell, electric bell, fire bell, Liberty Bell, school bell, sheep bell, shop bell, sleigh bell, cascabel, tocsin, warning bell, carillon, handbell, night bell, knell, angelus bell, angelus Part Meronyms: wind instrument, wind, funnel, blunderbuss Member Meronyms: Bloomsbury Group Derivational Morphology:
gong, chime, buzz, bombinate, bombilate, toll Anagrams:
bleb, Elbe
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