CHURCH BELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does church bell mean? 

• CHURCH BELL (noun)
  The noun CHURCH BELL has 1 sense:

1. a bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church)

  Familiarity information: CHURCH BELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHURCH BELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

church bells were ringing all over town

Hypernyms ("church bell" is a kind of...):

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

Domain category:

church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)

 Context examples 

The sexton therefore took him into his house, and he had to ring the church bell.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was three o'clock; the church bell tolled as I passed under the belfry: the charm of the hour lay in its approaching dimness, in the low-gliding and pale-beaming sun.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I walked a long time, and when I thought I had nearly done enough, and might conscientiously yield to the fatigue that almost overpowered me—might relax this forced action, and, sitting down on a stone I saw near, submit resistlessly to the apathy that clogged heart and limb—I heard a bell chime—a church bell.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)