BELL RINGING • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Bell ringing

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bɛl rˈɪŋɪŋ/ Listen

Bell ringing

noun

The sound of someone playing a set of bells.

Persuasion of voters in a political campaign. Synonyms: canvassing, electioneering.

Playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower. Synonyms: carillon, carillon playing.

See images of 'Bell ringing'

Etymology of 'Bell ringing'

Share |

"Bell ringing" Quotes from Famous Books

... took place on March 4, 1801, at Washington, to which city the government was removed from Philadelphia in the summer of 1800. [23] Everywhere the day was celebrated with bell ringing, cannonading, dinners, and parades. The people had triumphed; "the Man of the People" was President. Monarchy, aristocracy, and Federalism, it was said, had ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... strikes on the dewy stillness. It is the mission bell ringing for morning mass; and if you look yonder you may see the Franciscan friars going to prayers, with their loose grey gowns, their girdle of rope, their sandaled feet, and their jingling rosaries; and perhaps a ...

— A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story • Kate Douglas Wiggin

Words linked to "Bell ringing" : suasion, ring, carillon, ringing, tintinnabulation, music, change ringing, persuasion