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Belltown

Belltown proper noun: a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Proper noun

Belltown

  1. A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
    • The Belltown neighborhood has been transformed in recent decades from a grungy, semi-industrial arts district to a sort of ideal of moneyed urban living, with bike-friendly streets, hip cafés and condo towers so desirable that one penthouse there became the setting of the steamy “Fifty Shades of...2024 May 29, Mike Baker, “Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of Belltown

Named after William Nathaniel Bell (1817–1887).

Questions about Belltown

What does Belltown mean?
Belltown means a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
What part of speech is Belltown?
Belltown is a proper noun.

Words near Belltown in the dictionary

  1. Bellside
  2. bellsniff
  3. Bellsund
  4. belltower
  5. belltowers
  6. Belltown
  7. Belltrees
  8. belluine
  9. Belluno
  10. Bellurgan
  11. Bellview

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