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wind chime

wind chime noun: a set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.

Noun

wind chime (plural wind chimes)

  1. A set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.
    • By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86
  2. (percussion) A singular tubular bell.

Forms of wind chime

pluralwind chimes

Words formed from wind chime

Questions about wind chime

What does wind chime mean?
Wind chime means a set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.
What part of speech is wind chime?
Wind chime is a noun.
What is the plural of wind chime?
The plural of wind chime is wind chimes.

Words near wind chime in the dictionary

  1. Wind Cave
  2. wind chill
  3. wind chill factor
  4. wind chill factors
  5. wind chills
  6. wind chime
  7. wind chimes
  8. wind chop
  9. wind cone
  10. wind cones
  11. wind controller

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