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joy bell

joy bell is the alternative form of joy-bell.

Meaning of joy-bell

Noun

joy-bell (plural joy-bells)

  1. A church bell.
    • The carriages rolled away to the ringing of a joy bell in the church tower, as was proper at a baptism.1892, John Talbot Smith, Saranac: A Story of Lake Champlain, page 279

Forms of joy bell

pluraljoy bells

Questions about joy bell

What is joy bell the alternative form of?
Joy bell is the alternative form of joy-bell.

Words near joy bell in the dictionary

  1. jowter
  2. jowters
  3. Jowzjan
  4. Joxun
  5. joy
  6. joy bell
  7. joy bells
  8. joy buzzer
  9. joy buzzers
  10. joy car
  11. Joy Con

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Adapted from Wiktionary: joy bell (page history and authors); joy-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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