bell ringing
- noun
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tocar campanas
- The church's bell ringing could be heard throughout the village every Sunday.
Examples
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Learning the art of bell ringing requires practice and coordination among the team.
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- ( bell ringing )
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[bell ringing]
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[bell ringing]
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During the festival, the townspeople gathered to enjoy the bell ringing from the tower.
Synonyms
Playing music on a set of large bells in a tower
Playing tuned bells in changing sequences using set patterns
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the activity or art of playing bells' is directly and transparently composed from 'bell' (a hollow object that rings when struck) + 'ringing' (the act/sound of ringing). This is a straightforward noun + gerund construction following normal English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Bell ringing comes from the image of people working together to pull ropes and make big bells ring, like a small team playing music in a tower. That is why it also means 'the activity or art of playing a set of bells'.
