Usually means: Instrument producing sound through resonance.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word bell:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bell, bell: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Bell, Bell, bell, bell, the bell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bell, bell, bell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bell: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bell, bell: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bell, bell: Wordnik
  7. bell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bell, Bell, Bell, Bell: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Bell, bell: Wiktionary
  10. bell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. bell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. bell: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Bell: Dictionary.com
  14. bell: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. bell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Bell (Monotype), Bell (Swiss company), Bell (disambiguation), Bell (fictional currency), Bell (instrument), Bell (satellite), Bell (school), Bell (surname), Bell (typeface), Bell (wind), Bell (wind instrument), Bell, The Bell (magazine), The Bell (novel), The Bell (song), The Bell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Bell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. bell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. bell: Rhymezone
  20. bell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. bell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Bell, Bell: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. bell: Free Dictionary
  24. bell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Bell, bell: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Bell: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. bell: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bell-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Bell: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Bell: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bell: Investopedia
  6. Bell (disambiguation), Bell (place), Bell: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BELL, Bell, bell: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Bell (disambiguation), Bell (place), Bell (wind), bell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bell: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bell: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Bell (disambiguation), Bell (place), Bell: Medical dictionary
  5. Bell: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. BELL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bell: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bell: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bell: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bell, bell, bell, bell: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bell: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. bell, the Bell: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bell: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
noun:  An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
noun:  The sounding of a bell as a signal.
noun:  (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
noun:  A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
noun:  (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
noun:  (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
noun:  The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
noun:  (computing) The bell character.
noun:  Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
noun:  (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
noun:  (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
verb:  (transitive) To attach a bell to.
verb:  (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To telephone.
verb:  (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
verb:  (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
verb:  (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
noun:  The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
noun:  A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
noun:  The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
noun:  A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Los Angeles County, California.
noun:  A town in Gilchrist County, Florida.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois.
noun:  A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
noun:  Three townships in Pennsylvania.
noun:  A village in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
noun:  A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
noun:  A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
noun:  A municipality of Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
noun:  A municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate.
noun:  (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.
noun:  (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”). [(British, Ireland, slang, vulgar) The glans penis.]

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