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tin·tin·nab·u·la·tion    Audio Help   [tin-ti-nab-yuh-ley-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the ringing or sound of bells.
[Origin: 1825–35, Americanism; < L tintinnābul(um) bell (see tintinnabular) + -ation]
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tin·tin·nab·u·la·tion    Audio Help   (tĭn'tĭ-nāb'yə-lā'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The ringing or sounding of bells.


[From tintinnabulum.]

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tintinnabulation 
"the ringing of bells," 1831 (perhaps coined by Poe), from L. tintinnabulum "bell," from tintinnare "to ring, jingle" (reduplicated form of tinnire "to ring," from an imitative base) + instrumental suffix -bulum. Earlier forms in Eng. were tintinnabulary (1787), tintinnabulatory (1827), and tintinnabulum "small bell" (1398).

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tintinnabulation

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

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Tintinnabulation

Tin`tin*nab`u*la"tion\, n. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells. --Poe.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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