"wind chime" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wind chimes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wind chime (plural wind chimes)
  1. A set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind. Categories (topical): Percussion instruments Derived forms: Alabama wind chime [offensive], Mississippi wind chime [offensive] Translations (decorative tubular bells): tuulikello (Finnish), Windspiel [neuter] (German), פעמון רוח (pa'amon ruakh) [masculine] (Hebrew), vindspel [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-wind_chime-en-noun-NMu7Hb15 Disambiguation of Percussion instruments: 70 30 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 76 24 Disambiguation of 'decorative tubular bells': 80 20
  2. (music, percussion) One tubular bell. Categories (topical): Musical instruments
    Sense id: en-wind_chime-en-noun-bN4wpzP- Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

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