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telephone-bell

telephone-bell noun: a small bell, installed in a telephone, which rings to announce incoming calls.

Noun

telephone-bell (plural telephone-bells)

  1. A small bell, installed in a telephone, which rings to announce incoming calls.
    • "Halloa! There's that telephone-bell again." From time to time during and after lunch the high, insistent ring had summoned the Professor.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of telephone-bell

pluraltelephone-bells

Questions about telephone-bell

What does telephone-bell mean?
Telephone-bell means a small bell, installed in a telephone, which rings to announce incoming calls.
What part of speech is telephone-bell?
Telephone-bell is a noun.
What is the plural of telephone-bell?
The plural of telephone-bell is telephone-bells.

Words near telephone-bell in the dictionary

  1. telephone sex
  2. telephone shower
  3. telephone showers
  4. telephone tag
  5. telephone typewriter
  6. telephone-bell
  7. telephone-bells
  8. telephoned
  9. telephoneless
  10. telephonelike
  11. telephoner

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