church bells
Tower's bronze voices
Church bells are large bells hung in church towers, rung to mark services, weddings, funerals, and hours of the day.
Their sound carries across towns and villages, summoning worshippers or marking occasions.
The church bells rang out across the valley.
Figuratively, church bells evoke tradition, community, and ceremony—particularly weddings: I can hear the church bells already.
Marriage rite and feast
- funeralService honoring the dead
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- processionFormal moving line
- tollingSlow, solemn bell-ringing
knell · peal · chime · consecration · ordination · commemoration · celebration · solemnity
Resonant ringing burst
knell · tintinnabulation · resonance · reverberation · echo · sonorous · ringing · clangor
Tuned bronze bell instrument
- clapperBell's internal striker
- bronzeCopper-tin alloy
- castingShaping through liquid form
- foundryMetal casting facility
sally · wheel · headstock · crown · mouth · lip · tuning · swinging
Once each sixty minutes
- quarter-hourSixty-minute fraction, one-fourth
- noonDay's exact middle
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
- dawnDay's first glow
dusk · morning · evening · sundial · matins · vespers · compline · lauds
Formal court notification
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- warningAlert about danger
- curfewMandated return time
- death-knellBell announcing a death
tocsin · announcement · proclamation · gathering · alert · mourning · celebration · victory
wedding
Marriage rite and feast
- funeralService honoring the dead
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- processionFormal moving line
tolling · knell · peal · chime · consecration · ordination · commemoration · celebration · solemnity · dedication
peal
Resonant ringing burst
dong · knell · tintinnabulation · resonance · reverberation · echo · sonorous · ringing · clangor · vibration
carillon
Tuned bronze bell instrument
foundry · sally · wheel · headstock · crown · mouth · lip · tuning · swinging · stationary
hourly
Once each sixty minutes
- quarter-hourSixty-minute fraction, one-fourth
- noonDay's exact middle
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
dawn · dusk · morning · evening · sundial · matins · vespers · compline · lauds · prime
summons
Formal court notification
death-knell · tocsin · announcement · proclamation · gathering · alert · mourning · celebration · victory · armistice
- bellscowbell, cowbells, doorbell, handbell, toll
- EasterEaster egg, Easter eggs, Easter basket, Easter Sunday, Easter dinner
- Christmas Worshipmidnight mass, nativity, Christmas Eve service, Christmas carols, candlelight service
- church featuresaltar cloth, altar rail, apse, baptismal font, baptistery
- Spanish countrysidepueblo, hamlet, farmhouse, farmhouses, finca
- prayer callsazan, muezzin, call to worship, shofar, dawn prayer
church bellsfactory whistle
Loud industrial shift signal
air raid siren · foghorn · school bell · train whistle · tornado siren
church bellspush notification
Automatic message from app
text alert · PA system · radio broadcast · loudspeaker · email blast
church bellsdeath knell
Omen of ending
silence · funeral dirge · taps · passing bell
church, bell, bells, churchyard, churchgoing, belfry, churchgoer, churchgoers, churchyards