Kimball

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)

1. (countable) A surname from Welsh.
2. (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.

3. A placename
   1. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada
   2. A place in the United States
      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
   3. Ellipsis of Kimball County.

Derived terms

• County of Kimball
• Kimball County

 

Related terms

• Cymbeline