name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
peal
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/piːl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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homophone: peel
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rhymes with -iːl
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CMU ARPABET: P IY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective
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noun
Meaning 4
The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 6
To sound with a peal or peals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To utter or sound loudly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To assail with noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To resound; to echo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To appeal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 11
a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pealing, roll, rolling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sound
verb
Meaning 12
sound loudly and sonorously
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the bells rang
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ring
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sound, go
Narrower terms: ding, dong, dingdong, tintinnabulate, peal, knell
verb
Meaning 13
ring recurrently
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- bells were pealing
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ring, peal
History
Etymology
Variant of Peel.
From Middle English pele, peil, probably an apheretic variant of Middle English apel, appel, from Old French apel (“an appeal; pealing of bells”). Compare appeal.
Uncertain.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: звон (zvon) — loud sound
- Bulgarian: тътен (tǎten) — loud sound
- Czech: salva — loud sound
- Czech: výbuch — loud sound
- Esperanto: sonorado — loud sound
- Finnish: kumina — loud sound
- Finnish: kumu — loud sound
- Finnish: jylinä — loud sound
- Finnish: jyly — loud sound
- Finnish: jyrinä — loud sound
- Finnish: jyrähdys — loud sound
- French: éclat — loud sound
- German: Dröhnen — loud sound
- German: Glüüt — loud sound
- Japanese: 雷鳴 (raimei) — loud sound
- Māori: tangi pōhutu — loud sound
- Russian: звон (zvon) — loud sound
- Russian: гро́хот (gróxot) — loud sound
- Spanish: estruendo — loud sound
- Esperanto: sonorilaro — set of bells
- Bulgarian: камбанен звън (kambanen zvǎn) — the sound of ringing bells
- Czech: vyzvánění — the sound of ringing bells
- Czech: zvonění — the sound of ringing bells
- Galician: picada — the sound of ringing bells
- Galician: badalada — the sound of ringing bells
- Russian: звон (zvon) — the sound of ringing bells
- Spanish: campanada — the sound of ringing bells
- Spanish: campaneo — the sound of ringing bells
- Spanish: tañido — the sound of ringing bells
- Spanish: repique — the sound of ringing bells
- Spanish: repiqueteo — the sound of ringing bells
- Tagalog: dupikal — the sound of ringing bells
- Tagalog: kalembang — the sound of ringing bells
- Armenian: զրնգալ (zrngal) — to sound with a peal
- Bulgarian: еча (eča) — to sound with a peal
- Bulgarian: звъня (zvǎnja) — to sound with a peal
- Catalan: campanejar — to sound with a peal
- Czech: zvonit — to sound with a peal
- Czech: vyzvánět — to sound with a peal
- Czech: hlaholit — to sound with a peal
- Finnish: kumistaa — to sound with a peal
- Finnish: soittaa — to sound with a peal
- Finnish: kumista — to sound with a peal
- Finnish: soida — to sound with a peal
- Ancient Greek: ἠχέω (ēkhéō) — to sound with a peal
- Māori: pere — to sound with a peal
- Ottoman Turkish: چاكلامق (çañlamak) — to sound with a peal