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kimball

/ˈkɪmbəl/

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What does kimball mean?

proper noun

  1. A surname from Welsh.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
More meanings (7)

proper noun

  1. A city in Minnesota.
  2. A city, the county seat of Kimball County, Nebraska.
  3. A town in South Dakota.
  4. A town in Tennessee.
  5. A town in West Virginia.
  6. A town in Wisconsin.
  7. Ellipsis of Kimball County.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈkɪmbəl/

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Leonard Kimball, of Spencervale, and Morgan Bell, of Carmody, were glaring at each other across the parlor.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of the IslandProject Gutenberg ebook #51
Later experimenters in this direction were Kress, a German; Professor Wellner, an Austrian; and W. R. Kimball, an American.
Evelyn Charles Vivian; W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) MarshA History of AeronauticsProject Gutenberg ebook #874
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Barnum and his friend, Moses Kimball, purchased most of his effects and divided them between Barnum's American Museum in New York and Kimball's Museum in Boston.
Joel BentonA Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. BarnumProject Gutenberg ebook #1576
“I’d a letter from Ella Kimball today, Anne, and she wants us to go over to tea tomorrow afternoon to meet her cousin, Irene Trent, from town. But we can’t get one of our horses to go, for they’ll all be in use tomorrow, and your pony is lame . . . so I suppose we can’t go.”
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of AvonleaProject Gutenberg ebook #47