Boswell

发音

UK /ˈbɒzˌwɛl/
UK /ˈbɒz.wəl/
US /ˈbɑzˌwɛl/
US /ˈbɑz.wəl/

词形变化

Boswells 复数 Boswells

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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."

name
  1. 1.

    A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.

  2. 2.

    A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.

    James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson.

  3. 3.

    A place name:

    A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790).

  4. 4.

    A place name:

    A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.

  5. 5.

    A place name:

    A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.

  6. 6.

    A place name:

    A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.

  7. 7.

    A place name:

    A community on Kootenay Lake in the Kootenays, south-east British Columbia, Canada.

  8. 8.

    A place name:

    A former cannery town on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 6

friend champion admirer booster supporter protagonist

词源

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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