belle
/bɛl/
belle noun: an attractive woman.
Noun
belle (plural belles)
- An attractive woman.
- In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
- Another style of necklace among these Papuan belles is to wear two, each hanging on one side of the neck and under the opposite arm, so as to cross each other.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 255
- A fellow gay man.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Belle
Belle (plural Belles)
- A female given name from French.
- All the miniature Cinderellas, Belles, and Ariels who fill the streets every Halloween are essentially paying homage to characters that will slowly and inevitably chip away at their sense of worth in years to come.2018, Jen Kim, Love and…: Bad Boys, “The One” & Other Fun Ways to Sabotage Your Relationship, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN
- A surname from French
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Belle
Belle (plural Belles)
- A female given name from English.
belle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
belle in Hindi
- beautiful woman
- रमणी ramaṇī
belle in Tamil
- பெல்லே
belle in Marathi
- बेले
belle in Urdu
- گوری, حسینہ, نازنین
More languagesFewer languages
- belle in Bengali
- সুন্দরী
- belle in Malayalam
- സൗന്ദര്യധാമം, സുന്ദരി, അതിസുന്ദരി, അതീവസുന്ദരി
- belle in Kannada
- ಚೆಲುವೆ, ಚೆಲುವೆಣ್ಣು, ಕೋರಿ, ಬೆಡಂಗಿ
- belle in Gujarati
- બેલ્લે
- belle in Odia
- ବେଲେ
- belle in Nepali
- बेल्ले, बेले
Examples of belle in a sentence
- She was the particular belle of the party.
- "En avant, ma belle sabreuse!" shouts Tintin into the teeth of the wind.
- Belle came out of her dark place to show Sam her necklace.
Forms of belle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | belles |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Belles |
Origin of belle
From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.
From French belle (“beauty, beautiful”), from Latin bella.
Diminutive of Isabelle and Annabelle.
Words formed from belle
Phrases with belle
- Belle Vue
- Belle Isle
- Belle Mead
- Belle Glade
- Belle Chasse
- belle epoque
- belle esprit
- Belle Plaine
- Belle Fourche
- belle weather
- Belle Fontaine
- belle sabreuse
7 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with belle
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hell
- hotel
- repel
- smell
- cartel
- dell
- pell
- quell
- as well
- au naturel
- dwell
- expel
- fell
- gel
- La Rochelle
- lol
- oversell
- stell
- wel
- ABDL
- dispel
- ell
- kell
- knell
- mell
- personnel
- quenelle
- snell
- undersell
- yell
- death knell
- del
- farewell
- flotel
- foretell
- gazelle
- impel
- mademoiselle
- marcel
- mel
- morell
- Moselle
- motel
- NFL
- overswell
- propel
- pucelle
- rappel
Questions about belle
- What does belle mean?
- Belle means an attractive woman.
- What is belle in Hindi?
- Belle in Hindi is रमणी (ramaṇī). See Belle meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is belle?
- Belle can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce belle?
- Belle is pronounced /bɛl/.
- What is the plural of belle?
- The plural of belle is belles.
Words near belle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: belle (page history and authors); Belle (page history and authors); belle (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); belle (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); belle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); belle (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); belle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); belle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); belle (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); belle (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); belle (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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