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Meaning of belfried | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/ˈbɛlfɹid/

Definitions

  1. Furnished with a belfry or belfries.
    not-comparable
  2. Having a belfry or belfries of a specified number or kind.
    in-compounds, not-comparable

Examples

“a belfried tower”
“The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried school-house, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond.”
“It was strange to her as a town under the tides. There it was, clear and belfried as of old, but fathoms deep, and the bells had so faint a chime that Reddin’s voice drowned them.”
“a double-belfried / twin-belfried cathedral”
“[The hill] commanded a wide stretch of links or downs, met by the blue girdle of the Frith, having for its fringe, all along the coast, clusters of ancient villages—fishing or trading—with red-tiled or blue-slated houses, and round-belfried or sharp-pointed steeples of parish kirks.”
“To the right, on the crest of the first hill, stood the white-belfried brick church, surrounded by its calm graveyard, shadowy with the dogwoods that separated the family plots.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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