bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕl
ipa: /bɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
homophone: belle
Forms: form: bells
Etymology: From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjælde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.
Senses: examples: text: HEAR the sledges with the bells —
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
ref: 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells:
text: The bell which called the pupils to their lessons can still be seen on the roof.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 269, about a school in Lower Peover:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
glosses: An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
examples: text: Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.
ref: 2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The sounding of a bell as a signal.
examples: text: I’ll give you a bell later.
glosses: A telephone call.
glosses: A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
glosses: The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: alert
beep
mul:\a
glosses: The bell character.
examples: text: In a cowslip's bell I lie.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
topics: architecture
glosses: The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
examples: text: He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
glosses: A bubble.
glosses: Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
Synonyms: sense: in heraldry
word: campane
word: tintinnabule
Hyponyms: sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: bicycle bell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: bridle-bell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: campane
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: campanel
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: campanella
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: cascabel
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: church bell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: codon
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: corrigiunculum
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: corrigiuncula
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: crotal
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: curfew
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: curfew-bell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: dinner-bell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: doorbell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: dupla
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: handbell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: jingle bell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: nola
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: peal
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: petasius
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: signum
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: signum bell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: squilla
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: tintinnabulum
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: tocsin
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: vesper
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: vesper-bell
sense: Kinds of bell (noun)
word: yong bell
Coordinate terms: sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: alarm
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: buzz
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: buzzer
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: chime
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: curfew
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: ding-dong
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: dinger
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: gong
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: peal
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: ringer
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: siren
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: tocsin
sense: Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
word: toll
Meronyms: sense: internally suspended tool for striking
word: clapper
sense: internally suspended tool for striking
word: tongue
sense: flaring open end
word: mouth
Derived terms: word: agogo bell
word: alarm-bell
word: alarm bell
word: altar bell
word: Angelus bell
word: bear away the bell
word: bear the bell
word: bell animalcule
word: bell apple
word: bell arch
word: Bell Bar
word: bell-bearer
word: bellbind
word: bell-bind
word: bellbird
word: bell, book and candle
word: bell-bottom
word: bell-bottomed
word: bell-bottomed trousers
word: bell-bottoms
word: bell bottoms
word: bell-bottom trousers
word: bellbox
word: bell boy
word: bellboy
word: bell buoy
word: bell button
word: bell captain
word: bell cart
word: bellcast
word: bell character
word: bell chord
word: bell-collar
word: Bell Common
word: bell cot
word: bellcote
word: bell cow
word: bell crank
word: bellcrank
word: bell curve
word: bell curve god
word: bell deck
word: belldom
word: belled
word: bell end
word: bell-end
word: bell-faced
word: bellflower
word: bellfounder
word: bell-founder
word: bell founder
word: bellfounding
word: bell frog
word: bell gable
word: bell-gable
word: bellgirl
word: bell glide
word: Bell Green
word: bell heather
word: bellhop
word: bell hopper
word: bellhopper
word: bell-horse
word: bellhouse
word: bell housing
word: Bell Island
word: bellist
word: bell jar
word: bell lerp
word: bell-like
word: belllike
word: bell lyra
word: bell lyre
word: bell-magpie
word: bellmaker
word: bellmaking
word: bellman
word: bell metal
word: bell-metal ore
taxonomic: Manorina melanophrys
word: bell miner
word: bellmouth
word: bell-mouthed
word: bell pepper
word: bellperson
word: bell pit
word: bell-pull
word: bellpull
word: bell punch
word: bellpush
word: bell push
word: bell ringer
word: bell-ringing
word: bellringing
word: bell rope
word: bells and smells
word: smells and bells
word: bells and whistles
word: bell-shaped
word: bell sleeve
word: bell tent
word: bell-tent
word: bell the cat
word: bell-topper
word: bell tower
word: bell trap
word: bell tree
word: bell up
word: bellwether
word: bell-wether
word: bellwoman
word: bell work
word: bellwort
word: bluebell
word: calling bell
word: Canterbury bells
word: cap and bells
word: Christmas bells
word: church bell
word: clear as a bell
word: coral bells
word: coralbells
english: Heuchera
translation: Heuchera
word: coral-bells
word: cowbell
word: cow bell
word: da bell
word: dead bell
word: death bell
word: dinner bell
word: diving-bell
word: diving bell
word: diving bell spider
word: division bell
word: doorbell
word: door-bell
word: dressing-bell
word: dumbbell
word: dumb-bell
word: engine bell
word: firebell
word: fog bell
word: forebell
word: give someone a bell
word: handbell
taxonomic: Campanula rotundifolia
word: harebell
word: hawkbell
word: heather-bell
word: hell's bells
word: horse-bell
word: jingle bell
word: joy bell
word: joy-bell
word: kettlebell
word: larum-bell
word: leper's bell
word: lose the bell
word: lowbell
word: low-bell
word: lych bell
word: magnetobell
word: market bell
word: Mass bell
word: merrybell
word: mindfulness bell
word: minute bell
word: monkey's dinner bell
word: mort bell
english: Darwinia
translation: Darwinia
word: mountain bell
word: mule bell
word: Oconee bells
word: on a bell
word: passing-bell
word: passing bell
word: peal of bells
word: pull the other one, it's got bells on
word: ring a bell
word: ring of bells
word: ring one's bell
word: ring someone's bell
word: Roanoke bells
word: sacring bell
word: sacring-bell
word: saints' bell
word: sance bell
word: sanctus bell
word: sandbell
word: save by the bell
word: saved by the bell
word: seven bells
word: sheep-bell
word: ship's bells
word: shop-bell
word: silverbell
word: Six Bells
word: skellet bell
word: sledgebell
word: sleighbell
word: sleigh bell
word: snowbell
word: soul bell
word: sound as a bell
word: sprinkler bell
word: sunnybell
word: swimming bell
word: telephone-bell
word: tubular bells
word: undern-bell
word: unring a bell
word: warning bell
word: wedding bells
word: wind-bell
word: windbell
word: with bells on
word: yellow bells
word: you can't unring a bell
Related terms: topics: campanology
history
human-sciences
sciences
word: study of bells
sense: expert in bells
word: campanist
sense: expert in bells
word: campanologist
sense: player of bells
word: bell-ringer
sense: player of bells
word: carilloner
sense: player of bells
word: carilloneur
sense: player of bells
word: carillonist
sense: player of bells
word: ringer
sense: player of bells
word: tintinnabulary
sense: player of bells
word: tintinnabulist
sense: playing of bells
word: bell-ringing
sense: playing of bells
word: tintinnabulation
sense: playing of bells
word: tintinnabulism
sense: playing of bells
word: tintinnation
sense: bell-related
word: campanistic
sense: bell-related
word: campanologic
sense: bell-related
word: campanarian
sense: bell-related
word: tintinnabular
sense: bell-related
word: tintinnabulary
sense: bell-related
word: tintinnabulatory
sense: bell-related
word: tintinnabulous
sense: related to a peal of bells or bell tower
word: campanilian
sense: bell-shaped
word: bell-shaped
sense: bell-shaped
word: campanal
sense: bell-shaped
word: campaniform
sense: bell-shaped
word: campaniliform
sense: bell-shaped
word: campanular
sense: bell-shaped
word: campanulate
sense: bell-shaped
word: campanulated
sense: bell-shaped
word: campanulous
sense: bell-shaped
word: tintinnabulate
sense: containing bells
word: campaned
sense: sounding like a small bell
word: jingling
sense: sounding like a small bell
word: tinkling
sense: sounding like a small bell
word: tintinnabulant
sense: sounding like a small bell
word: tintinnabulating
sense: sounding like a small bell
word: tintinnating