Synonyms for bell
bɛlbell

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. bellnoun

   a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

   Synonyms:
   ship's bell, chime, buzzer, toll, bell shape, doorbell, gong, campana

2. doorbell, bell, buzzernoun

   a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

   Synonyms:
   chime, ship's bell, bell shape, buzzer, toll, doorbell, gong, campana

3. bell, tollnoun

   the sound of a bell being struck

   "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"

   Synonyms:
   ship's bell, chime, buzzer, price, toll, cost, bell shape, doorbell, gong, campana

4. bell, ship's bellnoun

   (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

   Synonyms:
   ship's bell, chime, buzzer, toll, bell shape, doorbell, gong, campana

5. bell, bell shape, campananoun

   the shape of a bell

   Synonyms:
   ship's bell, chime, buzzer, toll, bell shape, doorbell, gong, campana

6. Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bellnoun

   a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

   Synonyms:
   ship's bell, chime, buzzer, toll, bell shape, doorbell, gong, campana

7. Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephennoun

   English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

   Synonyms:
   ship's bell, chime, buzzer, toll, bell shape, doorbell, gong, campana

8. Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bellnoun

   United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

   Synonyms:
   ship's bell, chime, buzzer, toll, bell shape, doorbell, gong, campana

9. chime, bell, gongnoun

   a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

   Synonyms:
   chime, ship's bell, bell shape, buzzer, tam-tam, toll, doorbell, gong, campana

10. bellverb

    the flared opening of a tubular device

    Synonyms:
    ship's bell, chime, buzzer, toll, bell shape, doorbell, gong, campana

11. bellverb

    attach a bell to

    "bell cows"

Matched Categories

1. • Acoustic Device
   • Attach
   • Curved Shape
   • Inventor
   • Navigation
   • Painter
   • Percussion Instrument
   • Phonetician
   • Push Button
   • Signaling Device
   • Sound
   • Time Unit

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1. bellnoun

   Synonyms:
   campana, carillon, curfew, tocsin, gong

   Associated words:
   campanology, campanologist, peal, ring, knell, toll, chime

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1. List of paraphrases for "bell":

   cloche, tink, campana, doorbell, dork, gong, zhong, ringtone, queensway, ringing

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1. List of known nicknames for "Bell":

   Bell

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1. Greg Lipper:

   I think President Trump'll know pretty promptly what the Supreme Court majority's view is, this is a situation where you can't you know you can't unring the bell, obviously.

2. President Biden:

   It just happened almost overnight just in the last month. And so, it’s not a failure, but an alarm bell went off. I don’t think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did.

3. Angela Alsobrooks:

   Mr. Bell committed these acts in six different movie theaters across our region in an attempt to cause widespread fear and panic because he enjoyed seeing the terror people showed as they fled the theaters.

4. Dejan Stojanovic:

   From one bell all the bells toll.

5. Elvis Costello:

   If I wrote that song today, maybe I'd think twice about it, that's what my grandfather was called in the British army -- it's historically a fact -- but people hear that word go off like a bell and accuse me of something that I didn't intend.