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   What does carillon mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! CARILLON meaning: 1. (a tune played on) a set of bells, usually hung in a tower 2. (a tune played on) a set of bells…. Learn more.

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   What is a carillon in a church?

   • If you wake up in the morning to bells coming from a nearby church tower, the instrument that is being played is a carillon. A carillon is simply a set of bells in a tower. The Old French ancestor of this word is carignon. The car part of this word traces back to the Latin word for "four," so a carignon was a set of four bells.

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   What is the correct pronunciation of the word Carillion?

   • The mis-spelling "carillion" is probably derived from the pronunciation of "carillon" as "kuh-RIL-yun". However, this pronunciation appears in very few English-language dictionaries, and when it does it is as the least-preferred of several alternatives. The pronunciation "kuh-RIL-yun" does prevail in some parts of the English-speaking world,

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   What was a carillon in medieval times?

   • Women were still in cotton dresses and an ice-cream van, glad of the prolonged season, sounded its carillon as it passed them. He blinked and shook his head, regretting it instantly as it rang like a carillon. a small portable organ with arm-operated bellows popular in medieval times

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   When was the first carillon made?

   • Concerts and recitals are performed on the carillon throughout the summer. Its tower hosts the world's first porcelain carillon, manufactured in 1929 on the occasion of the town's 1000-years-jubilee. The company has been making bells for use in bell and clock towers, peals, chimes, and carillons since 1842.

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   What is Carillion and why is it important?

   • Carillion was a strategic supplier to the government with around 420 contracts in areas such as facilities management, catering, road and rail maintenance, accommodation, consultancy, and construction. By value, Carillion was central government’s sixth largest supplier in 2017. This makes Carillion an important entity in the context of government contracts.

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   CARILLON definition: 1. (a tune played on) a set of bells, usually hung in a tower 2. (a tune played on) a set of bells…. Learn more.

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     Meaning of carillon in English. carillon. noun [ C ] us /...

   • Znaczenie Carillon, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     carillon definicja: 1. (a tune played on) a set of bells,...

   • Carillon in Simplified Chinese

     carillon translate: （通常挂在钟楼上的）编钟；编钟乐曲. Learn more in the...

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     CARILLON translate: （通常掛在鐘樓上的）編鐘;編鐘樂曲. Learn more in the...

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     CARIES definition: 1. decay in the teeth or bones 2. decay...

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   Meaning of carillon in English. carillon. noun [ C ] us / ˈkær.ə.lɑːn / uk / kəˈrɪl.jən / Add to word list. (a tune played on) a set of bells, usually hung in a tower. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Foreign words & phrases used in English. acciaccatura. adieu. al dente. al fresco. aloha. aloo. alu. legato. ooh la la. oy. parlando.

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   noun. 1. a set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual or pedal action, or by machinery. 2. a set of horizontal metal plates, struck by hammers, used in the modern orchestra.

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   1. a. : a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard. b. : an electronic instrument imitating a carillon. 2. : a composition for the carillon.

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   Carillon definition: a set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual or pedal action, or by machinery.. See examples of CARILLON used in a sentence.

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   The earliest known use of the noun carillon is in the late 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for carillon is from 1774, in the writing of ‘J. Collier’. carillon is a borrowing from French .

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   carillon. If you wake up in the morning to bells coming from a nearby church tower, the instrument that is being played is a carillon. A carillon is simply a set of bells in a tower. The Old French ancestor of this word is carignon.