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Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English Beonetlēah. Originally a Sussex habitational name, the word leah or leag meaning field in Old English. Hence, equivalent to bent (“bent-grass”) + -leigh/lea (“meadow, field”); compare Bentham.
Proper noun[edit]
Bentley
- An English habitational surname from Old English.
- A place name, including:
- A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
- A town in Alberta, Canada.
- A number of places in England:
- A hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
- A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7844).
- A village in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1136).
- A suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
- A village in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire.
- An area in Walsall borough, West Midlands.
- A village in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A small town in Hancock County, Illinois.
- A small city in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Bay County, Michigan.
- A township in Gladwin County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Hettinger County, North Dakota.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Named after the founder of Bentley Motors, WO Bentley.
Noun[edit]
Bentley (plural Bentleys)
- A motor car manufactured by this company.
- 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 148:
- The car she reclined in was a 1960s Bentley.
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British car
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