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Kimball

Kimball proper noun: a surname from Welsh. Also the ellipsis of Kimball County.

Proper noun

Kimball (countable and uncountable, plural Kimballs)

  1. (countable) A surname from Welsh.
  2. (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara...1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC
  3. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
  4. A city in Minnesota.
  5. A city, the county seat of Kimball County, Nebraska.
  6. A town in South Dakota.
  7. A town in Tennessee.
  8. A town in West Virginia.
  9. A town in Wisconsin.

Also used as

Kimball is also the ellipsis of Kimball County.

Forms of Kimball

pluralKimballs

Origin of Kimball

From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.

Words formed from Kimball

Questions about Kimball

What does Kimball mean?
Kimball means a surname from Welsh.
What part of speech is Kimball?
Kimball is a proper noun.

Words near Kimball in the dictionary

  1. kimarite-gakari
  2. Kimatuumbi
  3. Kimba
  4. kimbab
  5. kimbabs
  6. Kimball
  7. Kimball County
  8. Kimballs
  9. kimbang
  10. Kimbangu
  11. Kimbanguism

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