doorbell
Noun
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Noun
doorbell (plural doorbells)
- A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building.
- A button that actives an electric doorbell.
- French: sonnette
- German: Türklingel, Klingel, Türglocke, Hausglocke (of a house)
- Italian: campanello
- Portuguese: campainha
- Russian: дверно́й звоно́к
- Spanish: timbre
doorbell (doorbells, present participle doorbelling; past and past participle doorbelled)
- (intransitive) To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.
- (transitive) To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.
- We doorbelled the whole district in an effort to get out the vote.
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