clocktowerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

clock tower (plural clock towers)

1. (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, 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).

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:

     This one is surmounted by a clock-tower with a bent weather-vane - the latter being the only disorderly object in sight.

   • 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.

Further reading

clock tower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia