Definitions for carillon

carillon car·il·lon

Spelling: [kar-uh-lon, -luh n or, esp. British, k Carillon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in carillon (acillnor).

Definitions for carillon

noun

  1. a set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual or pedal action, or by machinery.
  2. a set of horizontal metal plates, struck by hammers, used in the modern orchestra.

Origin of carillon

1765-75; French: set of bells, Old French car(e)ignon, quarregnon Vulgar Latin *quadriniōn-, re-formation of Late Latin quaterniōn- quaternion; presumably origi

Examples for carillon

Then comes the faint music of the carillon laughing in the night.

The child went out of the place sadly, as the carillon rang.

She knew that she must do it; she had driven her canoe out into the resistless current to ride the Rapids of carillon.

But to do that with the carillon was found to be inexpedient.

From the time he held her in his arms at carillon, he knew it.

"You seemed to think differently at carillon not long ago," he returned.

What man is there to whom the bells of his village, the carillon of his city, is not most dear?

His engagement to Miss carillon had not been an agreeable experience.

It was broken only by the chiming of a carillon clock in the hall below.

The words of this song were adapted in 1790 to the tune of ‘carillon National.’

Word Value for carillon
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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