Bell

//bɛl//

Synonyms for "bell" (254 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (51)

Related words (127)

neigh nod nudge orchestral bells parachute flare passing bell percussion percussion instrument percussions percussive pilot flag pipe poke police whistle pule quarantine flag radio beacon rattle rattlebones red flag

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red light reed ring ringer roar rocket roman candle sacring bell sailing aid screak scream screech semaphore semaphore flag semaphore telegraph sheepbell shriek sign signal signal beacon signal bell signal fire signal flag signal gong signal gun signal lamp signal light signal mast signal post signal rocket signal shot signal siren signal tower siren sit down strike sit-down strike sizzler sleigh bell slide snappers sound spar buoy squall squeak squeal stalemate stand standoff standstill stay stop stop light stoppage strike tam-tam telephone bell the nod the time the wink time time of day time signal tintinnabula tintinnabule tintinnabulum tocsin tongue tonitruone toot tooter tootle topping touch traffic light traffic signal triangle trumpet tubular bells tweedle ululate valve vanessa stephen vibes vibraphone wail walkout watch fire whine whinny whistle white flag wigwag wigwag flag wind wind instrument wink work stoppage xylophone yap yawp yellow flag yelp yip yowl

Noun(3 words)

ship's bell tintinnabule toll

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

21 relation types

More general

14 entries

acoustic device attach button curve curved shape opening percussion instrument percussive instrument push push button signaling device sound time unit unit of time

More specific

29 entries

bicycle bell bridle-bell campane campanel campanella cascabel church bell codon corrigiuncula corrigiunculum crotal curfew curfew-bell dinner-bell doorbell dupla

Showing 16 of 29 words.

Antonyms

1 entries

honk

Synonyms

7 entries

alexander graham bell alexander melville bell campane chime doorbell tintinnabule vanessa stephen

Related terms

38 entries

Bell Plain bell out bell-ringer bell-ringing bell-shaped campanal campanarian campaned campaniform campanilian campaniliform campanist campanistic campanologic campanologist campanular

Showing 16 of 38 words.

at location

7 entries

bellfry boat chairch church front door reindeer coller school

capable of

6 entries

ring ring hour ring time sound alarming sound dinner time sound either loud or quiet

coordinate

13 entries

alarm buzz buzzer chime curfew ding-dong dinger gong peal ringer siren tocsin toll

derived

230 entries

Angelus bell Baby Bell Bell Bar Bell Common Bell County Bell Green Bell Island Bell Park Bell Post Hill Bell River Bell pair Bell shot Bell state Bellhead Canterbury bells

Showing 16 of 230 words.

has a

2 entries

characteristic shape clapper

has context

9 entries

architecture british canada computing music nautical seafaring slang us

has property

1 entries

smooth to touch

holonym

4 entries

bell tower campanile carillon peal

is a

7 entries

acoustic device curve opening percussion instrument signaling device sound time unit

manner of

1 entries

attach

meronym

3 entries

clapper mouth tongue

part of

6 entries

bell tower blunderbuss carillon funnel trumpet wind instrument

receives action

2 entries

associated with telephones cast

related to

287 entries

abacus above above church alarm alert alert people alexander alexander graham angel angel wings apparatus attention baby bell bay been been rung

Showing 16 of 287 words.

similar

13 entries

alarm buzz buzzer chime curfew ding dong dinger gong peal ringer siren tocsin toll

used for

26 entries

alerting to bludgeoning call servants calling calling children into class get attention getting attention getting people's attention from distance keeping track of cow make noise making bell sound making music making noise playing music restoring quiet ring

Showing 16 of 26 words.

Translations

342 translations across 143 languages.

Abkhaz

1 entries

асаркьал noun (percussive instrument)

Afrikaans

2 entries

bel noun (percussive instrument)
klok noun (percussive instrument)

Albanian

4 entries

këmbanë noun (percussive instrument)
lingë noun (percussive instrument)
zile noun (percussive instrument)
zile noun (signal at a school)

Amharic

1 entries

ደወል noun (percussive instrument)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

κώδων noun (percussive instrument)

Arabic

3 entries

اِتِّصَال noun (informal: telephone call)
جرس noun (percussive instrument)
جَرَس noun (percussive instrument)

Aramaic

2 entries

זגא noun (percussive instrument)
ܙܓܐ noun (percussive instrument)

Armenian

4 entries

զանգ noun (percussive instrument)
զանգ noun (informal: telephone call)
զանգ noun (signal at a school)
զանգակ noun (percussive instrument)

Aromanian

2 entries

chipru noun (percussive instrument)
cãmbanã noun (percussive instrument)

Asturian

1 entries

campana noun (percussive instrument)

Avar

1 entries

цӏумур noun (percussive instrument)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

zəng noun (percussive instrument)

Bangi

1 entries

ngonga noun (percussive instrument)

Bashkir

3 entries

ҡыңғырау noun (percussive instrument)
ҡыңғырау noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
ҡыңғырау noun (signal at a school)

Basque

2 entries

kanpai noun (percussive instrument)
txirrin noun (percussive instrument)

Belarusian

4 entries

звано́к noun (informal: telephone call)
звано́к noun (signal at a school)
звано́чак noun (percussive instrument)
звон noun (percussive instrument)

Bengali

1 entries

ঘণ্টা noun (percussive instrument)

Bikol Central

2 entries

bagtingan noun (percussive instrument)
kampana noun (percussive instrument)

Bislama

1 entries

bel noun (percussive instrument)

Breton

1 entries

kloc'h noun (percussive instrument)

Bulgarian

4 entries

звън noun (informal: telephone call)
звъне́ц noun (signal at a school)
камба́на noun (percussive instrument)
камбанови́дно разшире́ние noun (the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument)

Burmese

1 entries

ခေါင်းလောင်း noun (percussive instrument)

Catalan

1 entries

campana noun (percussive instrument)

Cebuano

2 entries

kampana noun (percussive instrument)
linganay noun (percussive instrument)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

زەنگ noun (percussive instrument)

Chamicuro

1 entries

kasesepi noun (percussive instrument)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

通話 /通话 noun (informal: telephone call)
鈴 /铃 noun (percussive instrument)
鐘 /钟 noun (percussive instrument)
鐘 /钟 noun (signal at a school)

Church Slavic

1 entries

клаколъ noun (percussive instrument)

Crimean Tatar

2 entries

çañ noun (percussive instrument)
çañ sesi noun (percussive instrument)

Czech

4 entries

zvon noun (percussive instrument)
zvonec noun (percussive instrument)
zvonek noun (percussive instrument)
zvonek noun (signal at a school)

Dalmatian

1 entries

campuona noun (percussive instrument)

Danish

2 entries

glas noun (nautical: any of a series of strokes struck to indicate time)
klokke noun (percussive instrument)

Dutch

4 entries

bel noun (percussive instrument)
bel noun (signal at a school)
belletje noun (informal: telephone call)
klok noun (percussive instrument)

Esperanto

4 entries

sonorado noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
sonorilo noun (percussive instrument)
sonorilo noun (signal at a school)
tintilo noun (an instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar)

Estonian

1 entries

kell noun (percussive instrument)

Faroese

1 entries

klokka noun (percussive instrument)

Finnish

4 entries

kello noun (percussive instrument)
kello noun (signal at a school)
kello noun (the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument)
lasi noun (nautical: any of a series of strokes struck to indicate time)

French

4 entries

cloche noun (percussive instrument)
coup de fil noun (informal: telephone call)
pavillon noun (the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument)
sonnerie noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)

Friulian

2 entries

cjampane noun (percussive instrument)
čhampane noun (percussive instrument)

Galician

4 entries

badalada noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
campaíña noun (percussive instrument)
campá noun (percussive instrument)
esquilo noun (percussive instrument)

Georgian

2 entries

ზანზალაკი noun (percussive instrument)
ზარი noun (percussive instrument)

German

4 entries

Glocke noun (percussive instrument)
Glocke noun (signal at a school)
Glogg noun (percussive instrument)
Klingel noun (informal: telephone call)

Greek

3 entries

καμπάνα noun (percussive instrument)
κουδούνι noun (signal at a school)
τηλεφώνημα noun (informal: telephone call)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

klòch noun (percussive instrument)

Hebrew

3 entries

פַּעֲמוֹן noun (percussive instrument)
צִלְצוּל noun (informal: telephone call)
צִלְצוּל noun (signal at a school)

Hindi

2 entries

घंटा noun (percussive instrument)
घंटी noun (percussive instrument)

Hungarian

4 entries

csengetés noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
csengő noun (signal at a school)
csengő noun (an instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar)
harang noun (percussive instrument)

Hunsrik

1 entries

Glock noun (percussive instrument)

Icelandic

4 entries

bjalla noun (percussive instrument)
bjalla noun (signal at a school)
klukka noun (percussive instrument)
símtal noun (informal: telephone call)

Ilocano

4 entries

batingting noun (percussive instrument)
kampana noun (percussive instrument)
kampana noun (percussive instrument)
kampanilia noun (percussive instrument)

Indonesian

2 entries

bel noun (percussive instrument)
loceng noun (percussive instrument)

Ingrian

2 entries

kello noun (percussive instrument)
kello noun (signal at a school)

Iranian Persian

4 entries

تَماس noun (informal: telephone call)
زَنْگ noun (percussive instrument)
زَنْگ noun (informal: telephone call)
زَنْگ noun (signal at a school)

Irish

1 entries

clog noun (percussive instrument)

Italian

4 entries

campana noun (percussive instrument)
campanella noun (signal at a school)
chiamata noun (informal: telephone call)
telefonata noun (informal: telephone call)

Jamaican Creole

1 entries

bel noun (percussive instrument)

Japanese

4 entries

チャイム noun (signal at a school)
ベル noun (percussive instrument)
ベル noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
ベル noun (signal at a school)

Jingpho

1 entries

hkawng lawng noun (percussive instrument)

Kapampangan

4 entries

bakting noun (percussive instrument)
kampana noun (percussive instrument)
mungmungan noun (percussive instrument)
tale noun (percussive instrument)

Karachay-Balkar

1 entries

къонгуроу noun (percussive instrument)

Kavalan

1 entries

amil noun (percussive instrument)

Kazakh

1 entries

қоңырау noun (percussive instrument)

Khmer

2 entries

កណ្ដឹង noun (percussive instrument)
ចួង noun (percussive instrument)

Korean

4 entries

벨 noun (percussive instrument)
벨 noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
종 noun (percussive instrument)
종 noun (signal at a school)

Kumyk

1 entries

къонгурав noun (percussive instrument)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

коңгуроо noun (percussive instrument)

Lao

2 entries

ກະດິງ noun (percussive instrument)
ລະຄັງ noun (percussive instrument)

Latin

4 entries

campana noun (percussive instrument)
nola noun (percussive instrument)
tintinnabulum noun (signal at a school)
tintinnābulum noun (percussive instrument)

Latvian

1 entries

zvans noun (percussive instrument)

Lezgi

1 entries

зенг noun (percussive instrument)

Lingala

1 entries

ngonga noun (percussive instrument)

Lithuanian

1 entries

varpas noun (percussive instrument)

Luhya

1 entries

ekengele noun (percussive instrument)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Klack noun (percussive instrument)

Macedonian

3 entries

ѕво́нче noun (signal at a school)
ѕвоно noun (percussive instrument)
ѕвонче noun (percussive instrument)

Malay

1 entries

loceng noun (percussive instrument)

Malayalam

1 entries

മണി noun (percussive instrument)

Manchu

2 entries

ᠵᡠᠩ noun (percussive instrument)
ᡥᠣᠩᡤᠣᠨ noun (percussive instrument)

Mongo

1 entries

ngonga noun (percussive instrument)

Mongolian

1 entries

хонх noun (percussive instrument)

Māori

1 entries

pere noun (percussive instrument)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

kengele noun (percussive instrument)

Nogai

1 entries

конъырав noun (percussive instrument)

Norman

2 entries

clioche noun (percussive instrument)
clloque noun (percussive instrument)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

zing noun (percussive instrument)

Northwestern Ojibwa

1 entries

madwesidoon noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)

Norwegian

1 entries

henge en bjelle på verb (to attach a bell to)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

bjelle noun (percussive instrument)
innringing noun (signal at a school)
klokke noun (percussive instrument)
ringeklokke noun (an instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

bjølle noun (percussive instrument)
klokke noun (percussive instrument)

Occitan

1 entries

campana noun (percussive instrument)

Ojibwe

1 entries

godotaagan noun (percussive instrument)

Okinawan

1 entries

かに noun (percussive instrument)

Old East Slavic

2 entries

клаколъ noun (percussive instrument)
колоколъ noun (percussive instrument)

Old English

1 entries

belle noun (percussive instrument)

Oromo

1 entries

bilbila noun (percussive instrument)

Ossetian

1 entries

дзӕнгӕрӕг noun (percussive instrument)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

ناقوس noun (percussive instrument)
چاك noun (percussive instrument)
چاك noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
چاك noun (signal at a school)

Pangasinan

2 entries

banting noun (percussive instrument)
kampana noun (percussive instrument)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

дзвон noun (percussive instrument)

Pashto

1 entries

چان noun (percussive instrument)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Kjlinja noun (percussive instrument)

Polish

4 entries

czara noun (the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument)
dzwon noun (percussive instrument)
dzwonek noun (percussive instrument)
dzwonek noun (informal: telephone call)

Portuguese

4 entries

badalada noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
campainha noun (percussive instrument)
campainha noun (signal at a school)
campainha noun (an instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar)

Romanian

1 entries

clopot noun (percussive instrument)

Russian

4 entries

звон noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
звоно́к noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
звоно́к noun (informal: telephone call)
звоно́к noun (signal at a school)

Sardinian

1 entries

campana noun (percussive instrument)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

clag noun (percussive instrument)
clag noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
clag noun (signal at a school)
clag noun (the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

zvȍno noun (percussive instrument)
зво̏но noun (percussive instrument)

Shan

1 entries

ၶွင်းလွင်း noun (percussive instrument)

Sidamo

1 entries

bilbila noun (percussive instrument)

Sikkimese

1 entries

ཏིང་ཏིང noun (percussive instrument)

Slovak

4 entries

zvon noun (percussive instrument)
zvonenie noun (signal at a school)
zvonček noun (percussive instrument)
zvonček noun (signal at a school)

Slovene

2 entries

zvon noun (percussive instrument)
zvonec noun (signal at a school)

Somali

1 entries

koor noun (percussive instrument)

Southern Altai

2 entries

коҥору noun (percussive instrument)
шаҥ noun (percussive instrument)

Spanish

3 entries

campana noun (percussive instrument)
campanilla noun (percussive instrument)
pabellón noun (the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument)

Swahili

4 entries

kengele noun (percussive instrument)
kengele noun (informal: telephone call)
kengele noun (signal at a school)
kengele noun (the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument)

Swedish

4 entries

bjällra noun (percussive instrument)
klocka noun (percussive instrument)
klockstycke noun (the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument)
pingla noun (percussive instrument)

Tabasaran

1 entries

зенг noun (percussive instrument)

Tagalog

1 entries

kampana noun (percussive instrument)

Tajik

2 entries

занг noun (percussive instrument)
зангӯла noun (percussive instrument)

Tamil

1 entries

மணி noun (percussive instrument)

Tatar

1 entries

чаң noun (percussive instrument)

Telugu

1 entries

గంట noun (percussive instrument)

Thai

2 entries

กระดิ่ง noun (percussive instrument)
ระฆัง noun (percussive instrument)

Tibetan

1 entries

དྲིལ་བུ noun (percussive instrument)

Turkish

4 entries

zil noun (informal: telephone call)
zil noun (signal at a school)
çalma noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
çan noun (percussive instrument)

Turkmen

1 entries

jaň noun (percussive instrument)

Tuvan

2 entries

звонок noun (percussive instrument)
коңга noun (percussive instrument)

Ukrainian

4 entries

дзво́ник noun (percussive instrument)
дзвін noun (percussive instrument)
дзвіно́к noun (sounding of a bell as a signal)
дзвіно́к noun (informal: telephone call)

Unami

1 entries

sèhsalàmpwehun noun (percussive instrument)

Urdu

2 entries

گَھنْٹَہ noun (percussive instrument)
گَھنْٹی noun (percussive instrument)

Uyghur

2 entries

جاڭ noun (percussive instrument)
قوڭغۇراق noun (percussive instrument)

Uzbek

3 entries

qoʻngʻiroq noun (percussive instrument)
qoʻngʻiroq noun (signal at a school)
zang noun (percussive instrument)

Venetan

1 entries

canpana noun (percussive instrument)

Vietnamese

1 entries

chuông noun (percussive instrument)

Walloon

2 entries

cloke noun (percussive instrument)
clotche noun (percussive instrument)

Waray-Waray

4 entries

bagtingan noun (percussive instrument)
kampana noun (percussive instrument)
kampanilya noun (percussive instrument)
linganay noun (percussive instrument)

Welsh

1 entries

cloch noun (percussive instrument)

White Hmong

1 entries

tswb noun (percussive instrument)

Yiddish

1 entries

גלאָק noun (percussive instrument)

Yup'ik

1 entries

kuluk'uunaq noun (percussive instrument)

Zulu

1 entries

insimbi noun (percussive instrument)

Sample sentences

28 total sentences available.

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The church bell used to ring at three.

Source: tatoeba (19089)

The bell went off right in the middle of our discussion.

Source: tatoeba (19988)

I ran to school, but the bell had already rung.

Source: tatoeba (21494)

I heard the school bell ring.

Source: tatoeba (21574)

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Bell

Synonyms for "bell" (254 found)

Closest matches (51)

Strong matches (76)

Related words (127)

Related word relations

More general

More specific

Antonyms

Synonyms

Related terms

at location

capable of

coordinate

derived

has a

has context

has property

holonym

is a

manner of

meronym

part of

receives action

related to

similar

used for

Translations

Abkhaz

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Aramaic

Armenian

Aromanian

Asturian

Avar

Azerbaijani

Bangi

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bikol Central

Bislama

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Catalan

Cebuano

Central Kurdish

Chamicuro

Chinese Mandarin

Church Slavic

Crimean Tatar

Czech

Dalmatian

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

Friulian

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Haitian Creole

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Hunsrik

Icelandic

Ilocano

Indonesian

Ingrian