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campanile

[kam-puh-nee-lee, -neel, kahm-pah-nee-le] / ˌkæm pəˈni li, -ˈnil, ˌkɑm pɑˈni lɛ /


NOUN
bell tower
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK
NOUN
steeple
Synonyms


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The proposed building is 11 stories tall, approximately the same height as Storke Tower, the campanile that is the campus’s visual icon.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2021

Defensive backs meet with a view of the campanile, Cal’s clock tower.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

The campanile, or bell tower, is the second tallest in the city, after San Marco’s.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 21, 2019

In the piazza itself, visitors wait patiently in horrendously long queues to enter the basilica or take the lift up the campanile for views over the Serenissima.

From The Guardian ● May 1, 2018

The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

All is organized rather classically, with human-scaled plazas and passages punctuated by quirky campaniles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

The majority of American architects, then still trained in the Beaux-Arts manner, favoured a traditionalist approach, their designs ranging from teetering romanesque campaniles to gothic piles.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017

His landscapes are bright with unlikely color, his figures dressed in gay costumes of some imagined peasantry, his buildings festooned with cupolas, arches and campaniles of an architecture he has never seen.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is an almost smokeless town of white walls, roofs of narrow green slates or red tiles, tall trees, domes, campaniles, and slender chimney shafts, beautifully situated and beautiful in itself.

From Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw

The campaniles of modern industry rise slim and tall into the air.

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

The campanili of S. Zenone, Verona, and the cathedrals of Siena and Prato, differ from those already mentioned in that they owe their decoration to the alternating courses of black and white marble.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

From the line, too, the campanili of Grado and Aquileia are visible, far away over the plain, dark against lagoon or sky in the evening, or flashing white in the morning sun.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

All the sunset had paled, and the campanili of Venice Rose like the masts of a mighty fleet moored there in the water.

From Poems by William Dean Howells

We have noted that at Rome and Ravenna towers formed no part of the original basilican plan, but were added later as campanili.

From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson

Cypresses and campanili defined themselves in the landscape as the evening advanced.

From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore




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