Definition of "Bell"

Bell

/bɛl/

proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Bells
1. A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
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.
  Quotations
  […] 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.
  1857, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
5. A number of places in the United States:
  1. A city in Los Angeles County, California.
  2. A town in Gilchrist County, Florida.
  3. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois.
  4. A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
  5. A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
  6. Three townships in Pennsylvania.
6. A village in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
7. A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
8. A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
9. A municipality in Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
10. A municipality in Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate.
noun
plural Bells
1. (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.