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Word: bell
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Meaning:
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.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when it's time to change classes during the day.
- mostly|British|informal a telephone call
- 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.
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Proper noun:
- A female given name, a variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
- A Scottish and northern English surname for a bell ringer, bell maker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)"
- male|from=surnames occasionally transferred from the surname.
- The Bell telephone company (after w:Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
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Verb:
- intransitive To bellow or roar.
- To shape so that flares out like a bell.
- transitive To attach a bell to.
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