clock tower

See also: clocktower

English[edit]

clock tower (plural clock towers)

(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^[1], 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).
- 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.

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) (ghaṇṭāghar), धर्मघड़ी (hi) (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