bell

Nouns

  • (n) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
  • (n) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed buzzer, doorbell,
  • (n) the sound of a bell being struck
    • saved by the bell
    • she heard the distant toll of church bells
    toll,
  • (n) (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. ship's bell,
  • (n) the shape of a bell bell shape, campana,
  • (n) a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) Alexander Melville Bell, Melville Bell,
  • (n) English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen,
  • (n) United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell,
  • (n) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument chime, gong,
  • (n) the flared opening of a tubular device

Verbs

  • (v) attach a bell to
    • bell cows

Synonyms

buzzer doorbell toll ship's bell bell shape campana Alexander Melville Bell Melville Bell Vanessa Bell Vanessa Stephen Alexander Bell Alexander Graham Bell chime gong

Words of close approximity

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