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UK
/tˌɪntɪnˌæbjʊlˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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the sound of a bell ringing
the ringing of the telephone
the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells
the distinctive ring of the church bell
How To Use tintinnabulation In A Sentence
- I also love Edgar Allen Poe's "tintinnabulation" from his poem, The Bells (excerpt below): GottaBook
- It's that tripping, multi-syllabic word that sounds like a bell clanging: "tintinnabulation" that I love so much. Edgar Allan Poe: On his birthday, a celebration of his words
- Cave honors his own definition with songs that truly "resonate with the susurration of sorrow, tintinnabulation of grief" like "Straight to You", "Nobody's Baby Now", and the slayer "Into My Arms". Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
- It is an example of what Mr. Pärt calls tintinnabulation, a slow, introspective style, with the strings playing in a high register, that often evokes the pealing of bells. NYT > Home Page
- The trees around them were thin and willowy, soft breezes shook their leaves and sounded like cheery tintinnabulations ringing throughout the air.
- Cave honors his own definition with songs that truly "resonate with the susurration of sorrow, tintinnabulation of grief" like "Straight to You", "Nobody's Baby Now", and the slayer "Into My Arms". Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
- I just like the sound of the word tintinnabulation and if you look it up in the OED, it simply describes a sound made by the ringing of a bell. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
- Inside: the mellifluous cacophony of the gaming machines, the tintinnabulations of the bells.
- Prayer is a pure negotiation with angels on the right, two wrong too and hope, an accommodation in place of stroke, tintinnabulation of one billion clocks, stopped by a gong of long-held reservations. Repetitive Is The New Novena
- If you can't hear in that the tintinnabulation of heaven, then you have a J-cloth ear and a Bakelite soul.
