Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 114871 6914566 2009-07-01T13:38:20Z Interwicket 46132 iwiki +[[:zh:Bell]] {{also|bell}} ==English== ===Proper noun=== {{en-proper noun}} # A [[Scottish]] and northern [[English]] [[surname]] for a [[bell ringer]], [[bell maker]], or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)" # The Bell telephone company (after [[w:Alexander Graham Bell]], the inventor of the telephone.) # {{given name|male|from=surnames}} occasionally transferred from the surname. # A female given name, a variant of [[Belle]]; mostly used as a [[middle name]] in the 19th century. ====Related terms==== * [[Baby Bell]] [[Category:English surnames from Middle English]] [[Category:English diminutives of female given names]] [[ar:Bell]] [[el:Bell]] [[ie:Bell]] [[pt:Bell]] [[sr:Bell]] [[th:Bell]] [[zh:Bell]]