carillon

English

a carillon tower

Etymology

Borrowed from French carillon.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹɪˌlɑn/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈrɪljən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

carillon (plural carillons)

1. (music) A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries.
2. A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.

Derived terms

• carillonic
• carillonist
• carillonistic
• carillonneur

Related terms

• chimes
• glockenspiel

Descendants

• Tagalog: karilyon

Translations

a set of bells, often in a bell tower, originating from the Low Countries

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: карыльён m (karylʹjón)
• Catalan: carilló (ca) m
• Danish: klokkespil n
• Dutch: beiaard (nl) m, carillon (nl), klokkenspel (nl) n
• Esperanto: kariljono
• Finnish: tornikellopeli (fi), carillon (fi)
• French: carillon (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Carillon n
• Greek: καριγιόν n (karigión)
• Hungarian: harangjáték (hu)
• Indonesian: carillon
• Irish: clogaireacht f, clogra m
• Italian: carillon (it) m, cariglione m, gariglione m
• Japanese: カリヨン (kariyon)
• Polish: karylion m, carillon (pl) m
• Portuguese: carrilhão (pt) m
• Romanian: carilon (ro) n
• Russian: карильо́н (ru) m (karilʹón), карийо́н (ru) m (karijón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zvonara (sh) f, zvonik (sh) m

• Spanish: carrillón (es) m, carillón (es) m
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Verb

carillon (third-person singular simple present carillons, present participle (US) carilloning or (UK) carillonning, simple past and past participle (US) carilloned or (UK) carillonned)

1. To play a carillon.
2. To ring out like a carillon.
   • 1899, Matthew Phipps Shiel, Cold Steel, page 157:

     High carilloned Anne's laughter.

Further reading

• carillon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• corallin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French carillon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.rɪlˈjɔn/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ril‧lon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

carillon n or m (plural carillons, diminutive carillonnetje n)

1. carillon

Synonyms

• beiaard
• klokkenspel

French

Alternative forms

• carrillon (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French quarrillon, from Late Latin *quadriniōnem, from quaterniō (“group of four things”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi.jɔ̃/

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Noun

carillon m (plural carillons)

1. carillon (set of bells, often in a bell tower)

Derived terms

• carillonnant
• carillonnement
• carillonner
• carillonneur

Descendants

• → Catalan: carilló
• → Dutch: carillon
• → English: carillon
• → German: Carillon
• → Italian: carillon
• → Portuguese: carrilhão

Further reading

• “carillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• karilon

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French carillon.

Noun

carillon (plural carillon-carillon)

1. (music) carillon: a set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries

Further reading

• “carillon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French carillon.

Noun

carillon m (invariable)

1. musical box
2. carillon

Anagrams

• Roncalli, rincolla

Polish

carillon

Alternative forms

• karylion

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French carillon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.riˈjɔw̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔw̃
• Syllabification: ca‧ri‧llon

Noun

carillon m inan (related adjective carillonowy)

1. carillon (set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries)

Declension

Declension of carillon

	singular	plural
nominative	carillon	carillony
genitive	carillonu	carillonów
dative	carillonowi	carillonom
accusative	carillon	carillony
instrumental	carillonem	carillonami
locative	carillonie	carillonach
vocative	carillonie	carillony

Further reading

• carillon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• carillon in PWN's encyclopedia