Associations to the word «Tintinnabulation»

Noun

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Wiktionary

TINTINNABULATION, noun. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
TINTINNABULATION, noun. The ringing of bells.

Dictionary definition

TINTINNABULATION, noun. The sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke