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Dictionary: belle   (bĕl) pronunciation
n.
A popular, attractive girl or woman, especially the most attractive one of a group: the belle of the ball.

[French, beautiful, belle, from Latin bella, feminine of bellus.]


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noun

    A person regarded as physically attractive. beauty, lovely, stunner. Slang babe, doll, hunk (used of a man), knockout, looker, stud (used of a man). See beautiful/ugly.

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IN BRIEF: n. - A young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals.

Tutor's tip: The "belle" (beauty) will ring the "bell" (hollow object with a clapper that rings when it moves).

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Belle may refer to:

Contents

Aircraft

Business

Comics

Computers and software

Fiction

Film

  • Belle (1972 film), a 1972 film
  • Belle (1973 film), a 1973 film
  • Belle (1993 film), a 1993 film
  • Belle (2004 film), a 2004 film
  • Belle (2007 film), a 2007 film
  • Belle de jour, a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve
  • Belle (Disney), the fictional heroine of the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast
  • Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a 1944 documentary film about the famed World War II B-17 bomber Memphis Belle and crew on its final mission
  • Memphis Belle (film), a 1990 fictionalized film inspired by the 1944 documentary about the B-17 bomber Memphis Belle
  • Belle(a)from the film twilight

Magazines

Music

  • Belle (Al Green song), a 1977 song written by Al Green, Fred Jordan and Reuben Fairfax, Jr.
  • "Belle" (song), a 1998 song by Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou
  • Belle & Sebastian, Scottish pop group named after the French children's story Belle et Sébastien
  • 'Belle', a musical (circa 1961) alternatively titled 'The Ballad of Dr Crippen'

People

  • Southern belle, a refined woman from the southern United States (from the French belle, "beautiful")
  • Alexis Simon Belle (1674-1734), a French portrait artist
  • David Belle, a French actor
  • Belle (singer), a British singer-songwriter
  • Belle Gunness (1859-c. 1931), a Norwegian-American female serial killer

Physics

Places

Railroads

  • Southern Belle (KCS), a passenger train operated by the Kansas City Southern Railway
  • Southern Belle (LBSC), a passenger train operated by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
  • Devon Belle, a passenger train with observation car operated by the Southern Railway and then British Railways, 1947 to 1954, the observation cars of which have been preserved

Ships

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Translations: Belle
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - smuk kvinde

Nederlands (Dutch)
een beeld van een vrouw, de mooiste vrouw

Français (French)
n. - belle, beauté, reine

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schönheit, Schöne

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καλλονή

Italiano (Italian)
bella

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mulher (f) ou moça (f) bonita

Русский (Russian)
красавица

Español (Spanish)
n. - beldad, belleza, hermosura

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skönhet, vacker kvinna

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
美女

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 美女

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 미인

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 美人, 美女

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حسناء, غانيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יפהפייה‬


 
 

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