bell

name

1. A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."

   ““As far as I’m concerned, wives come and go, but Weezers are forever. And if Rivers [Cuomo] doesn’t realize that, then maybe he just doesn’t understand what being a Weezer is all about.” At press time, an increasingly frustrated Bell had reportedly announced plans to split off from the group and pursue projects as a solo Weezer.”

2. The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
3. A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
4. A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.

   “Here, Isabel, here is the good gentleman’s handkerchief; keep it for him now, till he comes to see little Bell again.”

   “[…] I found that her Christian name was Isabella, which they shortened into Bell, and that the name of the deceased non-commissioned officer was Tott. Being the kind of neat little woman it was natural to make a toy of—I never saw a woman so like a toy in my life—she had got the plaything name of Belltott. In short, she had no other name on the island.”

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11. A village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
12. A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
13. A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
14. A municipality of Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
15. A municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate.

noun

1. a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to ring”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).

1. To bellow or roar.

   “This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...].”

   “As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!”

2. To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

   “Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.”