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call-bell

call-bell is the alternative form of call bell.

Meaning of call bell

Noun

call bell (plural call bells)

  1. A bell used to summon an attendant, alert staff, or give a signal.
    • He reached for a call-bell upon a stand near by and rang it furiously.1909, Charles Roman, “Across the Occean in a Bath-tub”, in The American Magazine - IN THE WONDERLAND OF DELIRIUM, page 584

Forms of call-bell

pluralcall-bells

Questions about call-bell

What is call-bell the alternative form of?
Call-bell is the alternative form of call bell.

Words near call-bell in the dictionary

  1. call waiting
  2. call'd
  3. call'st
  4. call't
  5. call-and-response
  6. call-bell
  7. call-boy
  8. call-boys
  9. call-by-future
  10. call-by-name
  11. call-by-need

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Adapted from Wiktionary: call-bell (page history and authors); call bell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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