Usually means: Device signaling visitor at door.
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  1. doorbell: Merriam-Webster
  2. doorbell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doorbell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doorbell: Collins English Dictionary
  5. doorbell: Vocabulary.com
  6. Doorbell, doorbell: Wordnik
  7. doorbell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. doorbell: Wiktionary
  9. doorbell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. doorbell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. doorbell: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. doorbell: Dictionary.com
  13. doorbell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Doorbell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. doorbell: Rhymezone
  16. doorbell: FreeDictionary.org
  17. doorbell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. doorbell: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. doorbell: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. doorbell: Encyclopedia

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Doorbell: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See doorbells as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building.
noun:  A button that activates an electric doorbell.
verb:  (intransitive) To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.
verb:  (transitive) To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.

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