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CAMPANILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does campanile mean?
• CAMPANILE (noun)
The noun CAMPANILE has 1 sense:
1. a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building
Familiarity information: CAMPANILE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
belfry; campanile
Hypernyms ("campanile" is a kind of...):
bell tower (a tower that supports or shelters a bell)
Instance hyponyms:
Leaning Tower; Leaning Tower of Pisa (a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174)
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