telephone bell

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   electric bell that rings to signal a call

   Broaderelectric bell

Questions about telephone bell

What does telephone bell mean?

telephone bell means "electric bell that rings to signal a call".

Is telephone bell a common word?

telephone 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.