Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The ringing or sounding of bells.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The ringing of a bell or of bells; a sound like that of ringing bells.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the sound of a bell ringing
Etymologies
- Noun of action from tintinnabulate, from Latin tintinnabulum ("a bell"), from tintinō, a reduplicated form of tinniō ("ring, jingle"). (Wiktionary)
- From tintinnabulum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“It's that tripping, multi-syllabic word that sounds like a bell clanging: "tintinnabulation" that I love so much.”
The Washington Post: Edgar Allan Poe: On his birthday, a celebration of his words
“I've been looking for a way to work "tintinnabulation" into a post for a while -- very nicely done...and the fish looks delicious too!”
“I also love Edgar Allen Poe's "tintinnabulation" from his poem, The Bells (excerpt below):”
“Few settings would fail to be improved by the introduction of floating translucent orbs and music made by means of metaphysical tintinnabulation.”
“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.”
“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".”
“Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, the morning started with the shrill tintinnabulation of a green tea telephone, which we profusely stabbed with a handy philips head.”
“She lunged for her bag and retrieved the source of the tintinnabulation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tintinnabulation’.
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 109 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
contraindications, contradistinction, conventionalising, contextualisation, consubstantiation, constitutionality, constitutionalism, conscientiousness, congregationalist, contemporaneously, contextualization, comprehensibility and 634 more...
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Bells and Whistles
Liberty Bell, Belle and Sebastian, Whistler's Mother, whistle stop, pennywhistle, whistle pig, wolf whistle, wet your whistle, barbell, bell jar, Bell's palsy, bell pepper and 138 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Favorite Words Ending In 'tion
obfuscation, delineation, ratiocination, proprioception, gesticulation, oscillation, undulation, fasciculation, confabulation, interdiction, juxtaposition, commiseration and 41 more...
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Awkward-Sounding Words
smock, awkward, specificity, hobbledehoy, kitthoge, stroppy, loobily, ambisinistrous, botcherly, tintinnabulation, megalophonous, bosthoon and 7 more...
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O.o
Things that give you a warm fuzzy sort of feeling.
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one-word band names
please make up a new one-word band and post it to this list. thanks!
figgles, crumbuggers, forgs, fargles, forbes, meemaws, mime-osas, merkins, cadaver, karl, roombas, prudishals and 16 more...
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words adored
quisling, bellicose, fungible, mumpsimus, ouroboros, aleatoric, sophistry, gorgonize, gasconade, tintinnabulation, cabalistic, ear-kissing and 2 more...
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The Fantastic Chiliastic
chiliastic, hapax legomenon, anosognosia, jactitation, infundibular, twee, callipygian, tintinnabulation, prestidigitation, anhedonia, coprolalia, parapraxis and 15 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 256 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 475 more...
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ecbrenner's list
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word tank
a couple words
logolepsy, nefarious, quintessential, tintinnabulation, serendipity, rhapsody, palimpsest, panoply, mellifluous, imbue, loquacious, garrulous and 174 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tintinnabulation.
Prolagus Its, not it's! Apr 17, 2009
wordieup The word just sounds like it's definition. Apr 17, 2009
zuccaciyecioglu Hear the sledges with the bells -
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
The Bells, Edgar Allen Poe
Sep 29, 2008
oroboros tintinnaBuLATion May 5, 2008