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bedell

bedell is the obsolete spelling of beadle.

Meaning of beadle

Noun

beadle (plural beadles)

  1. A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
    • Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
      The children walking two and two in red and blue and green:
      Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
      Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.1789, William Blake, “Holy Thursday”, in Songs of Innocence
  2. (Scotland) An attendant to the minister.
  3. A warrant officer.

See all 4 meanings of beadle

Proper noun capitalized: Bedell

Bedell (plural Bedells)

  1. A surname.

Forms of bedell

Noun
pluralbedells
Proper noun
pluralBedells

Questions about bedell

What does bedell mean?
Bedell means a surname.
What is bedell the obsolete spelling of?
Bedell is the obsolete spelling of beadle.
What part of speech is bedell?
Bedell is a proper noun.

Words near bedell in the dictionary

  1. bedeguars
  2. bedehouse
  3. bedehouses
  4. Bedekovčina
  5. bedel
  6. bedell
  7. bedelliid
  8. bedelliids
  9. bedells
  10. bedelries
  11. bedelry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedell (page history and authors); Bedell (page history and authors); beadle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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