Definition of Bell tower

1. Noun. A tower that supports or shelters a bell.

Terms within: Belfry
Specialized synonyms: Belfry, Campanile
Generic synonyms: Tower

Definition of Bell tower

1. Noun. A tower in which a bell (or set of bells) is hung; a belfry ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell Tower

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bell ringer
bell ringers
bell ringing
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bell stage
bell tent
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bell toad
bell tower (current term)
bell towers
bella sombra
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Literary usage of Bell tower

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE BELL-TOWER. {The Piazza Tales. 1856.] IN the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed ... A stone pine; a metallic aviary in its crown: the Bell-Tower, ..."

2. Historical Essays by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"In Diocletian's day, palace and temple and mausoleum were there; the bell-tower was not, for the bell-tower was needed only for the service of the creed ..."

3. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... or bell tower; and in another document of the beginning of the reign of Henry III., which Dugdale quotes, it is described, under the Latin name of the ..."

4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"bell tower. A tower fitted and prepared for containing one or more large bells, und for allowing ... bell tower OF OLD CATHEDRAL AT ZARAGOZA, SPAIN, c. ..."

5. Across Russia: From the Baltic to the Danube by Charles Augustus Stoddard (1891)
"bell tower AND CATHEDRAL. THE TOWER OF IVAN THE GREAT, AND THE CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION. THE tower of Ivan the Great rises three hundred and twenty-five ..."

6. Historical Essays by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"The heathen peristyle, the Christian bell-tower, so far apart in date, ... The bell-tower, built in the narrow space between the peristyle and tho ..."

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