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campanile
noun
cam·pa·ni·le
ˌkam-pə-ˈnē-lē 
ˌkäm-,
-(ˌ)lā,
especially of US structures also
ˌkam-pə-ˈnēl
plural campaniles or campanili
ˌkam-pə-ˈnē-lē
ˌkäm-,
-(ˌ)lā
: a usually freestanding bell tower
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Singer Building housed a sewing-machine company, but its slender campanile might have served to ring tocsins or watch for approaching armies.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2023
Berkeley also appears on track to approve two more towers of comparable size and another that, at 28 stories, will be taller than the university’s famous campanile, which, at 307 feet, has defined the city’s skyline for more than a century.
—Daniel Duane, New York Times, 30 May 2023
To decorate this campanile, Crow has reportedly ordered sculptures made of his own heroes: Aristotle, free-market economist Milton Friedman and the Roman goddess Fortuna.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
That campanile?
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
Even now, they are marked architecturally by distinctive campanile, or bell-towers, as well as by the sort of sinuously sloping windows, many garlanded by vines, seen in some of Muggia’s private houses.
—Tara Isbabella Burton, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
Calling to you from sea and land alike, the belltower of pretty Piran is a dead ringer for the famous campanile of St Mark's Square.
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
Defensive backs meet with a view of the campanile, Cal’s clock tower.
—John Branch, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
The city’s imperial gate was built in 1489—a bit of medieval flair that’s bolstered by the fourteenth-century campanile and the fifteenth-century baptistry.
—Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2020
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2023
Berkeley also appears on track to approve two more towers of comparable size and another that, at 28 stories, will be taller than the university’s famous campanile, which, at 307 feet, has defined the city’s skyline for more than a century.
—Daniel Duane, New York Times, 30 May 2023
To decorate this campanile, Crow has reportedly ordered sculptures made of his own heroes: Aristotle, free-market economist Milton Friedman and the Roman goddess Fortuna.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
That campanile?
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
Even now, they are marked architecturally by distinctive campanile, or bell-towers, as well as by the sort of sinuously sloping windows, many garlanded by vines, seen in some of Muggia’s private houses.
—Tara Isbabella Burton, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
Calling to you from sea and land alike, the belltower of pretty Piran is a dead ringer for the famous campanile of St Mark's Square.
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
Defensive backs meet with a view of the campanile, Cal’s clock tower.
—John Branch, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
The city’s imperial gate was built in 1489—a bit of medieval flair that’s bolstered by the fourteenth-century campanile and the fifteenth-century baptistry.
—Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2020
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“Campanile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/campanile. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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campanile
noun
cam·pa·ni·le
ˌkam-pə-ˈnē-lē
ˌkäm-
ˌkäm-
-(ˌ)lā,
especially of U.S. structures also ˌkam-pə-ˈnē(ə)l
plural campaniles or campanili
: a bell tower
especially
: one built separate from another building
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