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English
Etymology
From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.
Proper noun
Kimball (countable and uncountable, plural Kimballs)
- (countable) A surname from Welsh.
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 1, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC: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.
- A placename
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada
- A place in the United States
- A city in Minnesota
- A city, the county seat of Kimball County, Nebraska.
- A town in South Dakota
- A town in Tennessee
- A town in West Virginia
- A town in Wisconsin
- Ellipsis of Kimball County.
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