Bell

/bɛl/
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Other forms: Bells

Definitions of Bell
  1. noun
    a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
    synonyms: Alexander Melville Bell, Melville Bell
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    example of:
    phonetician
    a specialist in phonetics
  2. noun
    United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
    synonyms: Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell
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    example of:
    artificer, discoverer, inventor
    someone who is the first to think of or make something
  3. noun
    English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
    synonyms: Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen
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    example of:
    painter
    an artist who paints
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