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tintinnabulation definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: ring, ringing, tintinnabulation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin tintinnabulum bell, from tintinnare to ring, jingle, from tinnire Date: 1831 1. the ringing or sounding of bells 2. a jingling or tinkling sound as if of bells

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a ringing or tinkling of bells. Etymology: as L tintinnabulum tinkling bell f. tintinnare redupl. form of tinnire ring

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tintinnabulation Tin`tin*nab`u*la"tion, n. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells. --Poe.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Rare.) See tinkling.