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Bell Tower

Definition: Bell Tower

Bell Tower

Noun

1. A tower that supports or shelters a bell.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Bell Tower

English words defined with "bell tower": belfrycampanile, carillon, church bell. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bell tower": Packard Bell Electronics, Inc.. (references)
Etymologies containing "bell tower": Campanile. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bell Tower

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Books

  • Bell Tower of Wyndspelle (reference)

  • Clangor in the bell tower (reference)

  • Climb into the Bell Tower (reference)

  • Rio Grande: From Baptists and Bevo to the Bell Tower, 1876-2001 (reference)

  • The Bell Tower and Beyond: Reflections on Learning and Living (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bell Tower

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Photo Album: Bell Tower

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Unidentified church with bell tower and doorway.Credit: Library of Congress.

Pogost ensemble, Church of the Intercession (1764), (right); with bell tower (19th century); and Church of the Transfiguration (1714), south view, Kizhi Island, Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Trinity Monastery, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, with bell tower (1727-55), northeast view, Tiumen', Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Log Church of Saint Nicholas (1846), bell tower, southwest view, which was originally built near the site where Lake Baikal drains into the Angara River, Listvianka, Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Bell tower Honfleur (Clocher Eglise St. Catherine) / Albert Smith.Credit: Library of Congress.

Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, bell tower.Credit: Library of Congress.

Old bell tower, Richmond, Va.Credit: Library of Congress.

Bell tower. Des Lacs, North Dakota.Credit: Library of Congress.

Reinhard & Hofmeister, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. Bell tower I.Credit: Library of Congress.

Georgetown Preparatory School. Bell tower at Georgetown Preparatory School I.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bell Tower

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bell tower xian

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bell Tower

Language Translations for "bell tower"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

belfort (belfry, belltower). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

belfrido (belfry). (various references)

   

French

  

clocher. (various references)

   

German

  

Glockenturm (belfry, belltower). (various references)

   

Italian

  

campanile (belfry, campanile, steeple). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

鐘楼 (belfry). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しょうろう (belfry, top), かねつきどう (belfry). (various references)

   

Manx

  

claggys (belfry, campanology). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellbay owertay

   

Romanian

  

clopotniţã (belfry, spire, steeple). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

колокольня (belfry, steeple). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

campanario (belfry, campanile, steeple, tower). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bell Tower

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-l-o-r-t-w"

-1 letter: bellower, bellwort.

-3 letters: bellow, belter, blower, bolete, bolter, bowler, retell, teller, toller, treble, trowel, welter.

-4 letters: belle, below, beret, betel, botel, bowel, bower, elbow, lower, owlet, rebel, relet, rewet, roble, rowel, towel, tower, troll, weber, wrote.

-5 letters: beer, beet, bell, belt, blet, blew, blot, blow, bole, boll, bolt, bore, bort, bowl, bree, brew, brow.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-l-l-o-r-t-w"
 

+4 letters: blanketflower, whistleblower.

 

+5 letters: blanketflowers, whistleblowers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bell Tower


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6C 6C      54 6F 77 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01010100 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#119 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006C 006C      0054 006F 0077 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3671787825481897184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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