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SOUND AS A BELL

Specialty Definition: SOUND AS A BELL

Domain	Definition
Literature	Sound as a Bell Quite sound. A cracked bell is useless as a bell. "Blinde Fortune did so happily contrive, That we, as sound as bells, did safe arive At Dover." Taylor's Workes, ii. 22 (1630). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: SOUND AS A BELL

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Health	On one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: SOUND AS A BELL

Language		Translations for "SOUND AS A BELL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		zdravý jako ryba. (various references)

German		gesund wie ein Fisch im Wasser (as sound as a bell). (various references)

Hungarian		olyan egészséges mint a makk (as sound as a bell), egészséges mint a makk (as sound as a bell). (various references)

Pig Latin		oundsay asay aay ellbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: SOUND AS A BELL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-l-l-n-o-s-s-u"
	-3 letters: aldolases, boundless, bullnoses, soundable, unsalable.
	-4 letters: abalones, aldolase, baldness, ballades, bandeaus, boldness, bullnose, busloads, dullness, landless, laudable, loanable, loudness, sabulose, seasonal, solubles, subdeans, subnasal, subnodal, undoable.
	-5 letters: abalone, abollae, abounds, albedos, aldoses, alludes, aludels, anlases, aubades, badness, balases, ballade, ballads, ballons, balneal, bandeau, bausond, belauds, blondes, bloused, blouses, bolases, boluses, bonuses, boulles, budless.
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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography

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