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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

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

Take any road in Italy, look up, and you’ll see a lovely hilltop town: a campanile, a castello, a few newer buildings spilling down the slope, as if expelled for the crime of ugliness.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015

We could see the campanile and the clock-tower.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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

Four of five other churches have campaniles, of which S. Andrea is the best, apparently twelfth-century work, as are the three apses at the eastern end.

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

These Italian campaniles had either flat summits, or were crowned with a low, unimportant roof.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 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

This is the type generally adopted in the campanili of Venice, where there are no string-courses.

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

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

From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore

As pink dawn blossomed in the sky, like a heavenly orchard, and the mountain tops were beaten into copper, we glided along the edge of the lake, past picturesque villages and campanili, and cypress trees.

From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

What slender campanili grew By bays, the peacock's neck in hue; Where, here and there, on sandy beaches15 A milky-belled amaryllis blew.

From Poems on Travel by Various


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