bell

Etymology Inherited from Middle English belle, from Old English belle, from Proto-West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel (“bell”), Dutch bel (“bell”), Low German Belle, Bel (“bell”), Danish bjælde (“bell”), Faroese bjølla (“bell”), Icelandic bjalla (“bell”), Norwegian bjelle (“bell”), Swedish bjällra (“bell”).

Synonyms

campane, tintinnabule

Derived terms

222 terms

agogo bell, alarm bell, alarm-bell, altar bell, Angelus bell, bear away the bell, bear the bell, bell animalcule, bell apple, bell arch, Bell Bar, bell bean, bell-bearer, bell-bind, bellbind, bellbird, bell, book and candle, bell-bottom, bell-bottomed, bell-bottomed trousers, bell-bottoms, bell bottoms, bell-bottom trousers, bellbox, bellboy, bell boy, bell buoy, bell button, bell captain, bell cart, bellcast, bell character, bell chord, bell-collar, Bell Common, bell cot, bellcote, bell cow, bell crank, bellcrank, bell curve, bell curve god, bell deck, belldom, belled, bell-end, bell end, bell-faced, bellflower, bell founder, bellfounder, bell-founder, bellfounding, bell frog, bell gable, bell-gable, bellgirl, bell glide, Bell Green, bell heather, bellhop, bell hopper, bellhopper, bell-horse, bellhouse, bell housing, Bell Island, bellist, bell jar, bell lerp, bell-like, belllike, bell lyra, bell lyre, bell-magpie, bellmaker, bellmaking, bellman, bell metal, bell-metal ore, bell miner, bellmouth, bell-mouthed, bell pepper, bellperson, bell pit, bellpull, bell-pull, bell punch, bellpush, bell push, bell ringer, bell-ringing, bellringing, bell rope, bells and smells, smells and bells, bells and whistles, bell-shaped, bell sleeve, bell sniff, bell tent, bell-tent, bell the cat, bell-topper, bell tower, bell trap, bell tree, bell turret, bell up, bellwether, bell-wether, bellwoman, bell work, bellwort, bluebell, calling bell, Canterbury bells, cap and bells, Christmas bells, church bell, clear as a bell, coral bells, coralbells, coral-bells, cow bell, cowbell, da bell, dead bell, death bell, dinner bell, diving bell, diving-bell, diving bell spider, division bell, doorbell, door-bell, dressing-bell, dumbbell, dumb-bell, engine bell, firebell, fog bell, forebell, give someone a bell, handbell, harebell, hawkbell, heather-bell, hell's bells, horse-bell, jingle bell, joy bell, joy-bell, kettlebell, larum-bell, leper's bell, lose the bell, lowbell, low-bell, lych bell, magnetobell, market bell, Mass bell, merrybell, mindfulness bell, minute bell, monkey's dinner bell, mort bell, mountain bell, mule bell, notification bell, Oconee bells, on a bell, passing bell, passing-bell, peal of bells, pull the other one, it's got bells on, ring a bell, ring of bells, ring one's bell, ring someone's bell, Roanoke bells, sacring-bell, sacring bell, saints' bell, sance bell, sanctus bell, sandbell, save by the bell, saved by the bell, seven bells, seven bells out of, sheep-bell, ship's bells, shop-bell, silverbell, Six Bells, skellet bell, sledgebell, sleigh bell, sleighbell, snowbell, soul bell, sound as a bell, sprinkler bell, subscriber bell, subscription bell, sunnybell, swimming bell, telephone-bell, the seven bells, tubular bells, undern-bell, unring a bell, warning bell, wedding bells, windbell, wind-bell, with bells on, yellow bells, you can't unring a bell

Related terms

36 terms

study of bells, campanist, campanologist, bell-ringer, carilloner, carilloneur, carillonist, ringer, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulist, bell-ringing, tintinnabulation, tintinnabulism, tintinnation, campanistic, campanologic, campanarian, tintinnabular, tintinnabulatory, tintinnabulous, campanilian, bell-shaped, campanal, campaniform, campaniliform, campanular, campanulate, campanulated, campanulous, tintinnabulate, campaned, jingling, tinkling, tintinnabulant, tintinnabulating, tintinnating

Hyponyms

30 terms

bicycle bell, bridle-bell, campane, campanel, campanella, cascabel, church bell, codon, corrigiunculum, corrigiuncula, crotal, curfew, curfew-bell, dinner-bell, doorbell, dupla, handbell, jingle bell, nola, peal, petasius, signum, signum bell, squilla, table bell, tintinnabulum, tocsin, vesper, vesper-bell, yong bell

Coordinate terms

alarm, buzz, buzzer, chime, curfew, ding-dong, dinger, gong, peal, ringer, siren, tocsin, toll

Holonyms

bell tower, campanile, carillon, peal

Meronyms

clapper, tongue, mouth