as in skull
a person's mental ability
The old codger has cobwebs in the belfry.
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Recent Examples of belfry
The Jokake Inn closed in the late 1970s and was demolished, except for its Pueblo revival-style belfry towers, which were incorporated into The Phoenician.
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Douglas C. Towne, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Lights and stones can be seen falling from the church before the belfry plummets to the ground, smashing into the concrete below.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, at dawn, fog spills through the Mirna River Valley like milk across a tabletop, leaving only the belfry piercing the haze.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
They were cleaned, polished and rehung in their belfries during a ceremony last month, their sounds resonating over Maaloula for the first time in 13 years.
—Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Douglas C. Towne, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Lights and stones can be seen falling from the church before the belfry plummets to the ground, smashing into the concrete below.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, at dawn, fog spills through the Mirna River Valley like milk across a tabletop, leaving only the belfry piercing the haze.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
They were cleaned, polished and rehung in their belfries during a ceremony last month, their sounds resonating over Maaloula for the first time in 13 years.
—Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belfry
skull
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One young man, his shirt off and loosely draped around his neck along with a Santa Muerte necklace, sports tattoos of a Kalashnikov rifle and a flaming skull, regarding the camera with bedroom eyes.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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The hat would activate a blueberry-sized device implanted in your skull that sends a pulse of electricity into your brain.—
O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Belfry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belfry. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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