Tintinnabulation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tintinnabulation \Tin`tin*nab`u*la"tion\, n.
     A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells. --Poe.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tintinnabulation
       n : the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the
           church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the
           tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the
           ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: {ring},
            {ringing}]