Boswell

名词 n. 专有名词
/ˈbɒzˌwɛl/|/ˈbɒz.wəl/    /ˈbɑzˌwɛl/|/ˈbɑz.wəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds.
    — "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity to miss it."
专有名词
  1. A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
  2. A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.; James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson.
  3. A place name:; A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790).
  4. A place name:; A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
  5. A place name:; A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.
  6. A place name:; A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  7. A place name:; A community on Kootenay Lake in the Kootenays, south-east British Columbia, Canada.
  8. A place name:; A former cannery town on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

词形变化

Boswells plural

词源

词源 1
Scottish surname, from Norman, named after Beuzeville, from Beuze + -ville ("Bosi's farm"); first element from Old Norse Bosi, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz.
词源 2
Scottish surname, from Norman, named after Beuzeville, from Beuze + -ville ("Bosi's farm"); first element from Old Norse Bosi, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz.
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