• enPR: bĕlʹfrē, IPA: /ˈbɛlfɹi/

belfry (plural belfries)

1. (obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
2. (dialectal) A shed.
3. (obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower containing an alarm-bell.
4. (architecture) A tower or steeple specifically for containing bells, especially as part of a church.
5. (architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:

     Episode 12, The Cyclops

     From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

• French: beffroi
• German: Belagerungsturm

• French: beffroi
• German: Bergfried

• French: beffroi
• German: Glockenturm
• Italian: campanile
• Portuguese: campanário, torre sineira
• Russian: колоко́льня
• Spanish: campanil, campanario

• German: Glockenstube
• Portuguese: campanário
• Spanish: campanario