Definition of bell

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • bell is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
  • bell is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
  • bell is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9

Definition of bell


  • the shape of a bell (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. bell shape
    2. campana
  • the sound of a bell being struck (noun)

    Examples

    1. saved by the bell
    2. she heard the distant toll of church bells

    Synonyms

    1. toll
  • a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. buzzer
    2. doorbell
  • English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. vanessa bell
    2. vanessa stephen
  • (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. ship's bell
  • a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. alexander melville bell
    2. melville bell
  • a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. chime
    2. gong
  • United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. alexander bell
    2. alexander graham bell
  • a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck (noun)
  • attach a bell to (verb)

    Examples

    1. bell cows
  • the flared opening of a tubular device (noun)

See definition of bell in Merriam Webster