Meanings
plural Kimballs
- countableA surname from Welsh.
- countableA male given name transferred from the surname.
1 more example
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.
1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC - A placename
- countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Kimball County, Nebraska.
- countableuncountableA town in South Dakota.
- countableuncountableA town in West Virginia.
- abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Kimball County.
Origin
- Old EnglishCynebeald
- Old WelshCynbel
- EnglishKimball
From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Kimball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kimball
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