clock tower

See also: clocktower

English

Noun

clock tower (plural clock towers)

1. (architecture) A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.
   • 1969, C. P. Fitzgerald, “The Spirit of Invention”, in The Horizon History of China‎, New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:

     An astronomical clock tower, built at K'ai-feng in the eleventh century under imperial orders, relied on a highly sophisticated combination of water-driven gears (seen at right center in the cutaway diagram above) to rotate an armillary sphere (under the thatched roof) and a celestial globe (located within the tower on the second floor).

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:

     This one is surmounted by a clock-tower with a bent weather-vane - the latter being the only disorderly object in sight.

   • 2022 November 16, Paul Stephen, “Stations earn a deserved NRA ovation: Medium: Bolton”, in RAIL, number 970, page 48:

     However, the Victorian platform buildings all survive, and the station's iconic clock tower (built in 1899) was dismantled and rebuilt alongside the current frontage.

Translations

tower having a large clock

Arabic: بُرْج سَاعَة m (burj sāʕa) Catalan: torre de rellotge f Danish: klokketårn (da) Dutch: klokkentoren (nl) m Finnish: kellotorni (fi) French: tour de l'horloge f German: Uhrturm (de) m Greek: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: מגדל שעון m (migdal sha'on) Hindi: घंटाघर (hi) m (ghaṇṭāghar), धर्मघड़ी (hi) f (dharmaghṛī) Hungarian: óratorony (hu) Indonesian: menara jam Japanese: 時計台 (とけいだい, tokeidai) Korean: 시계탑(時計塔) (ko) (sigyetap) Macedonian: саат-кула f (saat-kula) Polish: wieża zegarowa f Romanian: turn cu ceas n Russian: часова́я ба́шня (ru) f (časovája bášnja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: са̏хат-ку́ла f, са̀хат-ку́ла f Latin: sȁhat-kúla f, sàhat-kúla f Spanish: torre del reloj f Swedish: klocktorn (sv) n Thai: หอนาฬิกา (hɔ̌ɔ-naa-lí-gaa) Turkish: saat kule Ukrainian: годинникова вежа f (hodynnykova veža) Vietnamese: tháp đồng hồ

Further reading

clock tower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia