grandfather clock

Significado (Inglés)

A longcase clock.

Conceptos

reloj de pared

reloj de pie

Sinónimos

longcase clock

cuckoo clock

wall clock

tall-case clock

floor clown-to-ground openwork screen

floor clock

Traducciones

pendule à balancier

ρολόι με μεγάλο επιδαπέδιο

pendule

orologio a pendolo

hangklok

relógio de pêndulo

Wanduhr

relógio do vovô

Etimología (Inglés)

From an 1876 song, Grandfather's Clock, by American songwriter Henry Work, based on a clock in the George Hotel in Piercebridge, County Durham, England, which stopped keeping time after its owner died.