Bentley

alternative Bently

1. An English habitational surname from Old English.
2. A place name, including:
   1. A locality in the Kyogle council area, Lismore council area and the Richmond Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
   2. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
   3. A town in Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada.
   4. A hamlet in Rowley parish, East Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref TA0135).
   5. A hamlet north-west of Brentwood, Brentwood borough, Essex (OS grid ref TQ5696).
   6. A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7844).
   7. A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1136).
   8. An outer suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE5605).
   9. A hamlet and civil parish (served by Bentley and Merevale Parish Council) in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2895).
   10. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9899).
   11. Lower Bentley and Upper Bentley in Bentley Pauncefoot parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire.
   12. A small town in Hancock County, Illinois.
   13. A small city in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
   14. An unincorporated community in Bay County, Michigan.
   15. A township in Gladwin County, Michigan.
   16. An unincorporated community in Hettinger County, North Dakota.

plural Bentleys · alternative Bently

1. A motor car manufactured by this company.

   The car she reclined in was a 1960s Bentley.

   2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 148

   2 more examples

   The EXP 100 GT is a two-door, four-seat behemoth measuring 19 feet (5.8 meters) in length. It’s designed to show what a Bentley GT might look like in the year 2035, complete with a pure-electric powertrain and self-driving capabilities.

   2019 July 10, John McIlroy, “Bentley marks 100th birthday with futuristic new concept car”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023

   While auto sales as a whole have suffered from factory shutdowns and other disruptions due to the pandemic, sales of super-expensive cars, like Ferraris, Bentleys and Lamborghinis, finished 2020 at a blistering pace.

   2021 April 1, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Sales of Bentleys and Lamborghinis are booming because rich people are bored”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2024