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Bedwell

name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An inner suburb of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2424). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A hamlet in Sesswick community, Wrexham borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3646). countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To dwell around or about (a place); inhabit. ambitransitive

    "[...] At first like a twilight cloud, Yet momently clearer in colour, I saw church-domes and steeples, And lastly a whole city, Ancient-looking, Netherlandish, Man-bedwelt in."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From be- (“around, about”) + dwell. Compare Middle Dutch bedwellen.

Etymology 2

Variant of Bidwell.

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