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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

bella

/ˈbɛlə/

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What does bella mean?

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Italian.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈbɛlə/

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For however fanciful and fantastic the Isola Bella may be, and is, it still is beautiful.
Charles DickensPictures from ItalyProject Gutenberg ebook #650
“Et, quo ferre velint, permittere vulnera ventis Ensis habet vires; et gens quaecumque virorum est, Bella gerit gladiis.”
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
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Canoes sometimes descend from Villa Bella, in the interior province of Matto Grosso, but not so frequently as formerly, and I could hear of very few persons who had attempted of late years to ascend the river to that point.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440
“I quite deny it, Bella. She might if no lifelong penalty attached to it for the man, or, in his default, for herself; if the weakness of the moment could end with the moment, or even with the year. But when effects stretch so far she should not go and do that which entraps a man if he is honest, or herself if he is otherwise.”
Thomas HardyJude the ObscureProject Gutenberg ebook #153