Kimball

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English Cynebeald.

Proper noun

Kimball

1. A surname from Welsh
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1901 Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1

     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, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.

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

Derived terms

• Kimball County

Related terms

• Cymbeline