bell




bell - noun

  • a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
  • a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
  • the sound of a bell being struck
  • (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.
  • the shape of a bell
  • a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
  • English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
  • United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
  • a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
  • the flared opening of a tubular device

    • bell - verb

    • attach a bell to

    bell - thesaurus

    buzzer   campana   chime   doorbell   gong   toll  


    View spelling list ll words and learn about the word bell in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 2. Spelling the consonant sounds, Part 1.

    Scrabble score for bell

    b is 3 e is 1 l is 1 l is 1
    Scrabble score = 6

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