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ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL
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• ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL (noun)
The noun ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL has 1 sense:
1. a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
Familiarity information: ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL used as a noun is very rare.
• ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Alexander Melville Bell; Bell; Melville Bell
Instance hypernyms:
phonetician (a specialist in phonetics)
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