| 单词 | carillon |
| 释义 | carillon (once / 16813 pages) n If you wake up in the morning to bells coming from a nearby church tower, the instrument that is being played is a carillon. A carillon is a simply a set of bells in a tower. The Old French ancestor of this word is carignon. The car part of this word traces back to the Latin word for four, so a carignon was a set of four bells. Today, however, a carillon can have many many bells. Though you might picture someone playing it by pulling giant strings one after another, it is usually played by a keyboard that controls the bells. Some play automatically, with notes etched into a metal roll like you might find on a player piano. WORD FAMILYcarillon: carillons USAGE EXAMPLESThe carillon was recently renovated after the bell tower was struck by lightning in 2011, which damaged its computer system. Washington Times(Nov 14, 2016) Much to my surprise, I was standing in front of Le Carillon, the site of one of the terrorist attacks last November. Washington Post(Oct 13, 2016) The same is true for poetry, where the poet is like a steeple with a carillon of bells. The New Yorker(Aug 02, 2016) 1n set of bells hung in a bell tower Hyper bell, chime, gong a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument 2n playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower Syn|Hypo|Hyper bell ringing, carillon playing change ringing ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) |
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