CHURCH TOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does church tower mean? 

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

1. the tower of a church

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHURCH TOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tower of a church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

tower (a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building)

Holonyms ("church tower" is a part of...):

church; church building (a place for public (especially Christian) worship)

 Context examples 

After a day or two, the sexton awoke him at midnight, and bade him arise and go up into the church tower and ring the bell.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My eye involuntarily wandered to the grey church tower near the gates, and I asked, "Is he with Damer de Rochester, sharing the shelter of his narrow marble house?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a country of rolling moors, lonely and dun-coloured, with an occasional church tower to mark the site of some old-world village.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fine view and a church tower opposite atone for the many stairs, and I took a fancy to my den on the spot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)