LEANING TOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leaning Tower mean? 

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

1. a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEANING TOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Leaning Tower; Leaning Tower of Pisa

Instance hypernyms:

belfry; campanile (a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building)

Holonyms ("Leaning Tower" is a part of...):

Pisa (a city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower)

 Context examples 

I learned the first two tenses of the verb Etre, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the- bye, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the same day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)