Bell

/bɛl/

Other forms: Bells

Definitions of Bell

1. noun

   a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
   synonyms: Alexander Melville Bell, Melville Bell

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   phonetician

   a specialist in phonetics
2. noun

   United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone [phone])
   synonyms: Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell

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   artificer, discoverer, inventor

   someone who is the first to think of or make something
3. noun

   English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
   synonyms: Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen

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   painter

   an artist who paints