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clock towers

clock towers is the plural of clock tower.

Meaning of clock tower

Noun

clock tower (plural clock towers)

  1. A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.
    • An astronomical clock tower, built at K'ai-feng in the eleventh century under imperial orders, relied on a highly sophisticated combination of water-driven gears (seen at right center in the cutaway diagram above) to rotate an armillary sphere (under the thatched roof) and a celestial globe...1969, C. P. Fitzgerald, “The Spirit of Invention”, in The Horizon History of China, New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155

Questions about clock towers

What is clock towers the plural of?
Clock towers is the plural of clock tower.

Words near clock towers in the dictionary

  1. clock stars
  2. clock system
  3. clock the tea
  4. clock time
  5. clock tower
  6. clock towers
  7. clock up
  8. clock vine
  9. clock vines
  10. clock watcher
  11. clock watchers

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