Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

table bell

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

Syllables: table -bell
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hand-held bell intended to be rung in a dining room to call for service, but also used to call patients in medical clinics, assistants in offices, etc.

Example Sentences

"It is more awful and alarming, thus to startle silence by a deep-toned summoner, than to be brought back into petty life, by the tinkle of a table-bell."
"[…] we were waited upon by a tall, very tall woman, young and maiden-looking, yet with a strongly outlined and determined face. Afterwards we found her to be the wife of mine host. She poured out our tea, came in when we rang the table-bell to refill our cups, and again retired."
"[…] they ran about corridors or frantically rang table bells, asking with high voices of querulous eunuchs why form ninety thousand and two wasn’t ready."
"Suddenly Miss Digger looked drunk, rang the table bell drunkenly and without asking Mr. Nut, ordered one glass after another."

Inflected Forms

table bells (plural)

Questions

What does table bell mean?: A hand-held bell intended to be rung in a dining room to call for service, but also used to call patients in medical clinics, assistants in offices, etc.

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