name
Meaning 1
A female given name from French.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
belle
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/bɛl/
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rhymes with -ɛl
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homophone: bell
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CMU ARPABET: B EH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from French
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A female given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
An attractive woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
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noun
Meaning 5
A fellow gay man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
Meaning 6
a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she was the belle of the ball
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Broader terms: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille
History
Etymology
From French belle (“beauty, beautiful”), from Latin bella.
Diminutive of Isabelle and Annabelle.
From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Japanese: ベォレ (Berre) — female given name
- Belarusian: прыгажу́ня (pryhažúnja) — beautiful woman
- Belarusian: красу́ня (krasúnja) — beautiful woman
- Bulgarian: краса́вица (krasávica) — beautiful woman
- Chinese Mandarin: 美女 (měinǚ) — beautiful woman
- Chinese Mandarin: 美人 (měirén) — beautiful woman
- Czech: kráska — beautiful woman
- Czech: krasavice — beautiful woman
- Esperanto: belulino — beautiful woman
- Finnish: kaunotar — beautiful woman
- French: belle — beautiful woman
- French: beauté — beautiful woman
- German: Schönheit — beautiful woman
- German: Schöne — beautiful woman
- Hindi: रमणी (ramaṇī) — beautiful woman
- Japanese: 美人 (bijin) — beautiful woman
- Japanese: 美女 (bijo) — beautiful woman
- Japanese: 別嬪 (beppin) — beautiful woman
- Macedonian: убавица (ubavica) — beautiful woman
- Polish: piękność — beautiful woman
- Portuguese: beldade — beautiful woman
- Portuguese: bela — beautiful woman
- Russian: краса́вица (krasávica) — beautiful woman
- Russian: красо́тка (krasótka) — beautiful woman
- Serbo-Croatian: лепотица — beautiful woman
- Serbo-Croatian: љепотица — beautiful woman
- Serbo-Croatian: лепојка — beautiful woman
- Serbo-Croatian: љепојка — beautiful woman
- Serbo-Croatian: lepotica — beautiful woman
- Serbo-Croatian: ljepotica — beautiful woman
- Serbo-Croatian: lepojka — beautiful woman
- Serbo-Croatian: ljepojka — beautiful woman
- Slovak: krásavica — beautiful woman
- Slovak: kráska — beautiful woman
- Slovene: lepotica — beautiful woman
- Ottoman Turkish: كوزل (güzel, gözel) — beautiful woman
- Ukrainian: красу́ня (krasúnja) — beautiful woman
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