Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clock tower

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: clock- -tow-er
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.

Example Sentences

"An astronomical clock tower, built at K'ai-feng in the eleventh century under imperial orders, relied on a highly sophisticated combination of water-driven gears (seen at right center in the cutaway diagram above) to rotate an armillary sphere (under the thatched roof) and a celestial globe (located within the tower on the second floor)."
"This one is surmounted by a clock-tower with a bent weather-vane - the latter being the only disorderly object in sight."
"However, the Victorian platform buildings all survive, and the station's iconic clock tower (built in 1899) was dismantled and rebuilt alongside the current frontage."

Inflected Forms

clock towers (plural)

Questions

What does clock tower mean?: A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.

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