Definition of chime

• n. - See Chine, n., 3.
• n. - The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
• n. - A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
• n. - Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
• n. - To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
• n. - To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
• n. - To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
• n. - To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
• v. i. - To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
• v. i. - To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.