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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bel•lows /ˈbɛloʊz/USA pronunciation n. [countable]* [used with a singular or plural verb]- a device for producing a strong current of air by drawing air in and pushing it out through a tube:a bellows for increasing the draft to a fire.
- Photographysomething resembling a bellows, as lungs.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bel•lows (bel′ōz, -əz),USA pronunciation n. ( used with a sing. or pl. v.) - Photographya device for producing a strong current of air, consisting of a chamber that can be expanded to draw in air through a valve and contracted to expel it through a tube.
- Photographyanything resembling or suggesting bellows in form, as the collapsible part of a camera or enlarger.
- the lungs.
- bef. 900; Middle English bel(o)wes (plural), Old English belg, short for blǣst belg, plural belgas blast-bag; cognate with Dutch blaasbalg, German Blasebalg, Old Norse belgr. See belly
- Biographical George Wesley, 1882–1925, U.S. painter and lithographer.
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