Tintinnabulation: [tin-te-na-bye-la-shen]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Latin, mid-19th
century
1. The ringing of
bells
2. A tinkling sound,
like that of a bell
Examples used in a sentence:
1. I always look
forward to the joyous tintinnabulation at church during the Christmas
season.
2. The faint tintinnabulation
in my ears is starting to drive me crazy.
About Tintinnabulation
The largest bell in the world is believed to be Moscow’s
Tsar Bell, which weighs nearly half a million pounds and is 20 feet tall. The bell would probably produce a pretty loud
tintinnabulation – if it weren’t broken.
Did You Know?
We know tintinnabulation to mean “the ringing of the bells.” It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that
tinnitus is the medical term for a chronic ringing in the ears.
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