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proper noun
- A Scottish and northern English surname for a bell ringer, bell maker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)"
- The Bell telephone company (after w:Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
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noun
- An object made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
- (context, mostly, UK, informal) a telephone call
- I"ll give you a later.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when it's time to change classes during the day.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
Translations: - German: Glocke
- Italian: campana
- Spanish: campana big, campanilla small
Etymology: (term, belle); cognate with Dutch (term, bel).
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