belfried
/ˈbɛlfɹid/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a belfried tower"
- "The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried school-house, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond."
- "It was strange to her as a town under the tides. There it was, clear and belfried as of old, but fathoms deep, and the bells had so faint a chime that Reddin’s voice drowned them."
- "a double-belfried / twin-belfried cathedral"
- "[The hill] commanded a wide stretch of links or downs, met by the blue girdle of the Frith, having for its fringe, all along the coast, clusters of ancient villages—fishing or trading—with red-tiled or blue-slated houses, and round-belfried or sharp-pointed steeples of parish kirks."
- "To the right, on the crest of the first hill, stood the white-belfried brick church, surrounded by its calm graveyard, shadowy with the dogwoods that separated the family plots."
Etymology
From belfry + -ed.