Kimball
Kimball proper noun: a surname from Welsh. Also the ellipsis of Kimball County.
Proper noun
Kimball (countable and uncountable, plural Kimballs)
- A surname from Welsh.
- 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
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
- A city in Minnesota.
- A city, the county seat of Kimball County, Nebraska.
- A town in South Dakota.
- A town in Tennessee.
- A town in West Virginia.
- A town in Wisconsin.
Also used as
Kimball is also the ellipsis of Kimball County.
Forms of Kimball
| plural | Kimballs |
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Origin of Kimball
From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.
Words formed from Kimball
- County of Kimball
- Kimball County
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
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