Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bell tower, especially one near but not attached to a church or other public building.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a bell-tower; especially, in some parts of Italy, a detached building erected for the purpose of containing bells; also, in the Renaissance style, a particular form of bell-turret, such as the two western towers of St. Paul's cathedral in London, St. Peter's and the Pantheon in Rome, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bell tower (now especially when freestanding), often associated with achurch or other public building, especially in Italy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The campanile is three arched on all four sides, whereas the one in the picture is two arched.
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He catches the word campanile, and straightens, careful of his chest.
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And before he departed from Pistoia, although the work had not up to then been begun, he made the model of the Campanile of S. Jacopo, the principal church of that city; on which campanile, which is on the square of the said S. Jacopo and beside the church, there is this date: A.D.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi Giorgio Vasari 1542
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Mamma's lunch was spoiled because, in pronouncing "campanile" for the first time, she rhymed it with the river Nile, and realized what she had done when some one else soon after inadvertently said it in the right way.
My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901
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The '' 'Leaning Tower of Pisa' '' is the '' campanile '' (bell tower) belonging to the
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The '' 'Leaning Tower of Pisa' '' is the '' campanile '' (bell tower) belonging to the
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The iron campanile in Camaret. poursuivre (poor-sweevre) verb
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Campanile or no campanile, I must steer my boat back to Venice, where it belongs.
Erica Heller: In Between Books: The 'Catch-22' of Pre- and Post-Partum Book Depression Erica Heller 2011
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He set his course by the campanile in San Marco Square, visible at the time from all parts of the lagoon.
Erica Heller: In Between Books: The 'Catch-22' of Pre- and Post-Partum Book Depression Erica Heller 2011
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Its slender campanile looms strikingly over the surrounding neighborhood.
Catholic Cleveland: Historic Church Saved, But Others Still in Danger 2009
palooka commented on the word campanile
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a campanile (free standing bell tower) incidentally.
April 7, 2008
mollusque commented on the word campanile
A genus of snails, with one living species in Australia, and extinct species in Europe, some fossils of which approach a meter in length.
April 7, 2008