angelus bell

1. 1.

   the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited

   Synonymsangelus

   Broaderbell

Questions about angelus bell

What does angelus bell mean?

angelus bell means "the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited".

What is another word for angelus bell?

Close synonyms include angelus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angelus bell a common word?

angelus bell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.