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Bell Ringer

Definitions: Bell Ringer

Bell Ringer

Noun

1. A person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation).

2. Someone who plays musical handbells.

3. Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal; "the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer"; "scored a bull's eye"; "hit the mark".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Bell Ringer

DomainDefinitions

Public Administration

Sonnerie signalant aux travailleurs le début ou la fin de la période de repos. . . . . ringer: one who or that which rings or makes a ringing noise. . . Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Bell Ringer

Synonyms: bull's eye (n), mark (n), ringer (n), toller (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: bell-ringer (public administration, industry).

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Crosswords: Bell Ringer

English words defined with "bell ringer": Campanologist. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bell Ringer

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Bell Ringer of Antigua (1946)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bell Ringer

DomainTitle

Books

  • Be a Bell Ringer (reference)

  • Bell Ringer, and Other Stories (reference)

  • The bell ringer (and other stories for the young) (reference)

  • The Bell Ringer and the Pirates (An I Can Read Book) (reference)

  • The Bell ringer of Angels (The Works of Bret Harte - Volume 19) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bell Ringer

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Photo Album: Bell Ringer

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Couple at fair looking at a clown and a bell ringer.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Sounds Captioned with "Bell Ringer".

PlayCaption
Bonk; bang; bat; bell ringer; belt; biff; blow; buffet; bump; butt; chop; clash; clip; clout; collision; cuff; fisticuff; glance; haymaker; impact; knock; leather; lick; one-two; one-two punch; paste; pat; plunk; punch; rap; rap; roundhouse; shock; shot; .
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bell Ringer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bell ringer

14

bell ringer wedding

3

bell ringer wesley

2
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Modern Translations: Bell Ringer

Language Translations for "bell ringer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حلق الجرس. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zvoník (ringer). (various references)

   

French

  

timbre, sonneur. (various references)

   

German

  

glöckner (ringer). (various references)

   

Italian

  

campanaro. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

鐘' (ringing of a bell). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かねつき (heater, heating apparatus, ringing of a bell, superheater). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellbay ingerray

   

Romanian

  

clopotar (ringer, Sexton). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

звонарь. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zvonar (carillonneur). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

campanero (ringer), éxito (accomplishment, achievement, hit, outcome, result, success, triumph, win). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zangoç (ringer, sacrist, sacristan, Sexton, verger). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

обхідник квартир, дзвонар (bedral, ringer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Bell Ringer

Misspellings

"Bell Ringer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bellringer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bell Ringer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-g-i-l-l-n-r-r"

-1 letter: rebelling.

-2 letters: gerbille, lingerer.

-3 letters: belling, berline, bringer, griller, leering, legible, libeler, rebegin, reeling.

-4 letters: belier, berlin, biller, binger, birler, briner, erring, gerbil, giller, grille, lierne, linger, nellie, rebill, relier, reline, ringer.

-5 letters: begin, beige, being, belie, belle, bilge, binge, birle, brier, brill, brine, bring, genie, genre, giber, glebe, grebe, green, grill, iller, ingle, leben.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bell Ringer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6C 6C      52 69 6E 67 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01010010 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#82 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006C 006C      0052 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367178782527580737184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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