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Definitions: Carillon |
CarillonNoun1. Set of bells hung in a bell tower. 2. Playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carillon" was first used: 1775. (references) |
Etymology: Carillon \Car"il*lon\, noun. [French expression carillon chime of bells, originally consisting of four bells, as if fr.. (assumed) Latin quadrilio, from quatuer four.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CarillonSynonyms: bell ringing (n), carillon playing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carillon |
| English words defined with "carillon": carillon playing, carillonneur. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Carillon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (carillon, chimes), French (carillon, chime, peal of bells), Italian (carillon), Romanian (chime). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Carillon de la liberté (1931) Carillon (1993) | |
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 | Don't get underneath! Odd view of "Rockefeller Church" as largest bell is raised up to famous carillon.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ziegfeld Follies showgirls performing at the Carillon, Miami Beach, Florida.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Carillon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carillon" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "carillon": carillon playing. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "carillon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | beiaard (chimes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zilka, tingëllimë (bell, chime, clang, clicking, orotundity, ring, ringing, sonority, sound, sounding, tang, tinkle, tinkling, tolling, tone, twang), tingëllim (bell, chime, clang, clicking, orotundity, ring, ringing, sonority, sound, sounding, tang, tinkle, tinkling, tolling, tone, twang), sahat me kambana. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المصلصلة مجموعة أجراس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | комплект от камбани (chime), камбани. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '琴. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zvonková hra (chime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | carillon (chimes, glockenspiel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sonorilaro (chimes), kariljono (chimes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سنتورزنگی , زنگهای موسیقی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carillon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | glockenspiel (chime, chimes, glockenspiel, peal, ring of bells). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μουσικοί κωδώνεσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'י ת פעמו ים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | harangjáték (chime, chime of bells, chiming), harangjátékmű billentyűsorral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menara lonceng (belfry, campanile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carillon (chime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | カリブ海 (californium, calypso, Caribbean Sea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カリロン , カリヨン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | clagrey, claggeraght (babbling, clack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arilloncay conjunto de sinos, carrilhão (chime, peal). (various references) мелодичный перезвон, подбор колоколов (peal, ring). (various references) zvona za sviranje melodije. (various references) carillón (chime, jowl). (various references) klockspel (chime, peal, ring of bells). (various references) çeşitli tonlarda ses veren çanlar, çanlarla çalınan melodi. (various references) куранти (bell, chime), мелодійний передзвін дзвонів. (various references) chuông chùm điệu nhạc chuông. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | quaternionem. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | carignon. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carillon": carillonned, carillonneur, carillonneurs, carillonning, carillons. (additional references) | |
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"Carillon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acrilan, Cabrillo, Caillou, Camilion, camillon, Cariglia, carillo, Cariplo, Carlil, carrilon, Cartiglio, cerillo, cerillos, Cirillo, Corillo, Corillon, coriolan, craiglynn, crillon, criollo, criollos, Cubillo, Farallon, Mcgrillan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carillon" (pronounced ke"rulÄ'n) |
| 4 | -u l Ä' n | echelon, Epsilon. |
| 3 | -l Ä' n | nylon, pylon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: clarion. | |
-2 letters: alnico, carlin, caroli, clinal, clonal, collar, lorica, oilcan. | |
-3 letters: acorn, aloin, cairn, carol, claro, colin, coral, coria, lilac, linac, llano, local, loral, loran, narco, naric, nicol, noria, orcin, racon. | |
-4 letters: airn, anil, arco, aril, cain, call, calo, carl, carn, ciao, cion, clan, clon, coal, coil, coin, coir, cola, coni, corn, icon, inro. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: carillons, carolling, collaring, collinear, coralline. | |
+2 letters: citronella, corallines, corralling, interlocal, involucral, ironically, unilocular. | |
+3 letters: binocularly, bronchially, caracolling, carillonned, chronically, citronellal, citronellas, conciliarly, cordilleran, doctrinally, jackrolling, lamellicorn, moronically, nonallergic, nonclerical, nonracially, oneirically, organically, overcalling, precolonial, rapscallion. | |
+4 letters: carillonneur, carillonning, ceremonially, citronellals, collinearity, crenellation, entropically, forensically, fractionally, frictionally, hallucinator, harmonically, hydronically, isochronally, lamellicorns, microtonally, narcotically, necrological, neurological, neurotically, nonclericals, noncollinear, paranoically, provincially, rapscallions, reallocating, reallocation, reconcilable, reflectional, romantically, sardonically, scintillator, tinctorially, unironically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 69 6C 6C 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .. .-.. .-.. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r i l l o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0069 006C 006C 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767847578788180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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