doorbell

noun
🔊/ˈdɔːbel/
🔊/ˈdɔːrbel/
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  1. a bell with a button outside a house that you push to let the people inside know that you are there门铃
    • to ring the doorbell按门铃
    • He refused to answer the doorbell.他拒绝应门。
    • I heard the doorbell ring, and went to see who was there.我听见门铃响,就去看谁来了。
    Topics Houses and homesb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + doorbell
    • press
    • ring
    • answer
    doorbell + verb
    • chime
    • ring
    • sound
    phrases
    • a ring on the doorbell
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