wind chime

English

Noun

wind chime (plural wind chimes)

1. A set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.
   • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86:

     By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.

2. (music, percussion) A singular tubular bell.

Derived terms

• Alabama wind chime (offensive)
• Mississippi wind chime (offensive)

Translations

decorative tubular bells

• Finnish: tuulikello (fi)
• German: Windspiel (de) n
• Hebrew: פעמון רוח m (pa'amon ruakh)
• Swedish: vindspel (sv) n