Meanings
proper noun
- A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
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The Belltown neighborhood has been transformed in recent decades from a grungy, semi-industrial arts district to a sort of ideal of moneyed urban living, with bike-friendly streets, hip cafés and condo towers so desirable that one penthouse there became the setting of the steamy “Fifty Shades of Grey” book series.
2024 May 29, Mike Baker, “Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin
Named after William Nathaniel Bell (1817–1887).
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APA
Belltown. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Belltown
MLA
“Belltown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Belltown. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Belltown,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Belltown.
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