church bell
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1.1
- noun
- /tʃɜːrtʃ bɛl/
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- Every Sunday morning, the church bell rings to call the villagers to worship.
- ring the church bell
Christians are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, to ring church bells or to display crosses.
- Christians are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, to ring church bells or to display crosses.
- And it has the tone and the beauty and the magic of a church bell.
- OK, so I got what I needed to done and now the sun came out, the church bells are ringing.
- In the film, he goes to it's a Sunday and you can hear the church bells and he goes to the church and he asks for help from the congregation and they won't do it.
- And if it is, it will sound like church bells ringing, vibrating throughout your entire body through every single spectrum of our light frequency.
Examples
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I hear him when the church bells ring
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When he heard the church bells announcing the midnight Christmas service, he got up.
Fiction book (2002) -
From the other side of town came the sound of church bells.
Fiction book (1992) -
And I heard the church bells from midnight Mass.
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And the sound, it's an old beautiful church bell and the sound is pure and gorgeous.
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OK, so I got what I needed to done and now the sun came out, the church bells are ringing.
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Church bells soon began to ring.
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But the continued ringing of the church bells told him that it must be far later than he first thought.
Fiction book (1991) -
Somewhere close by, a church bell tolled the hour.
Fiction book (1998) -
Then, thrilling the air, there came the nostalgic chime of church bells, almost under their window.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
A bell sound in Catholic churches that calls people to say the Angelus prayer
How Loud
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bell in a church tower' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'church' (a building for Christian worship) with 'bell' (a ringing object). This is a straightforward noun–noun compound with a clear referent and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase church bell is very literal: it refers to a big bell in a church tower that people ring to call others to services or to mark the time, so it means 'a bell used to summon people or show the hour'.