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Bell

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Bell

1
n
a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
2
n
United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
3
n
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Bell
1

n a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

Synonyms:
Alexander Melville Bell, Melville Bell
Example of:
phonetician
a specialist in phonetics
2

n United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

Synonyms:
Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell
Example of:
artificer, discoverer, inventor
someone who is the first to think of or make something
3

n English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

Synonyms:
Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen
Example of:
painter
an artist who paints
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