Campanile
[,kæmpə'niːleɪ] or [,kæmpə'nili]
Definition
(noun.) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building.
Inputed by Gavin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Belfry.
Edited by Kelsey
Definition
n. a name adopted from the Italian to signify a bell-tower of the larger kind and usually applied only to such as are detached from the church: (pl. usually Campaniles but sometimes the It. Campanili).
Edited by Ingram
Examples
- The fields were bare and wet; a long way away I could see a campanile rising out of the plain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We could see the campanile and the clock-tower. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I remembered it as a little white town with a campanile in a valley. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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