Belle
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Belle is the feminine form
of the French
word which means beautiful.
It may also refer to:
Grammatical gender
Grammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be...
of the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
word which means beautiful.
It may also refer to:
Business
- Belle Baby CarriersBelle Baby CarriersBelle Baby Carriers is a privately-held company that designs and manufactures a new form of front baby carrier. Belle was founded in 2006, and has quickly grown to sell its carriers in over 250 stores in the United States and in many other countries...
, a U.S. baby carrier manufacturer - Belle InternationalBelle InternationalBelle International Holdings Limited is the No. 1 woman's shoe retailer in the People's Republic of China, with 22% domestic market share. It is engaged in the manufacturing, distribution and retail sales of footwear products...
, a Chinese footwear retailer
Computers and software
- Belle (chess machine)Belle (chess machine)Belle was the name of a chess computer and its associated software, developed by Joe Condon and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs in the 1970s and 1980s. Belle was the first computer built for the sole purpose of chess playing. The strongest computer chess system of its time, Belle achieved a USCF rating...
, an early chess computer - Southern Belle (game)Southern Belle (game)Southern Belle is a train simulation video game published by Hewson Consultants in 1985. Southern Belle was unique at the time of release in that it was the first 3D steam train simulator available for home computers...
, a computer game
Fiction
- Belle (Disney), a fictional character from Disney's Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beast (1991 film)Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period...
- Belle et SébastienBelle et SébastienBelle et Sébastien is a novel by Cécile Aubry about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog, who live in a small French Alps Mountain village on the French side of the border between France and Italy...
, a French children's story
Film
- Belle (1972 film), a 1972 film
- Belle (1973 film)Belle (1973 film)Belle is a 1973 Belgian-French drama film directed by André Delvaux. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean-Luc Bideau - Mathieu Grégoire* Danièle Delorme - Jeanne* Adriana Bogdan - Belle* Roger Coggio - Victor...
, a 1973 film - Belle (1993 film), a 1993 film
- Belle (2004 film), a 2004 film
- Belle (2007 film), a 2007 film
- Belle (2010 film), a 2010 film
- Belle BlackBelle BlackIsabella "Belle" Brady is a fictional character on the U.S. daytime television drama Days of our Lives. The only child of supercouple John Black and Marlena Evans, she is also one half of the supercouple Shawn Brady and Belle Black...
, a fictional character from the American soap opera, Days of our LivesDays of our LivesDays of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around... - Belle de jour (film), 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 FortressMemphis Belle: A Story of a Flying FortressThe Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress is a 1944 documentary film which ostensibly provides an account of the final mission of the crew of the Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. In May 1943 it became the first U.S...
, a 1944 documentary film about the famed World War II B-17 bomber Memphis Belle and crew on its final mission - Memphis Belle (film)Memphis Belle (film)Memphis Belle is a 1990 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Monte Merrick, starring Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz and introducing Harry Connick Jr. in his screen debut...
, a 1990 fictionalized film inspired by the 1944 documentary about the B-17 bomber Memphis Belle
Music
- Belle (Al Green song), a 1977 song written by Al Green, Fred Jordan and Reuben Fairfax, Jr.
- "Belle" (song)Belle (song)"Belle" is a 1997 song performed by the Francophone singers Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou, from the musical Notre Dame de Paris. Released as a single in 1998, it was a hit in France and Belgium, topping the charts for many months...
, a 1998 song by Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou - Belle & SebastianBelle & SebastianBelle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996. Belle and Sebastian are often compared with influential indie bands such as The Smiths, as well as classic acts such as Love, Bob Dylan and Nick Drake. The name Belle & Sebastian comes from Belle et Sébastien, a 1965...
, Scottish pop group named after the French childrens story Belle et Sébastien - 'Belle', a musical (circa 1961) alternatively titled 'The Ballad of Dr Crippen'
- 'Belle', An Academy Award nominated song from the movie, "Beauty and the Beast"Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period...
People
- Southern belleSouthern belleA southern belle is an archetype for a young woman of the American Old South's upper class....
, a refined woman from the southern United States (from the French belle, "beautiful") - Alexis Simon BelleAlexis Simon BelleAlexis Simon Belle was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.-Birth:...
(1674-1734), a French portrait artist - David BelleDavid BelleDavid Belle is well known as the founder of Parkour. Belle founded Parkour based on his training and the teachings from his father Raymond Belle. The discipline has since spread around the world and now has adherents in virtually every country...
, a French actor - Albert BelleAlbert BelleAlbert Jojuan Belle is a former American Major League Baseball outfielder for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, and Baltimore Orioles...
, an American baseball player - Lexi BelleLexi BelleLexi Belle is an American pornographic actress.She was working in a video store where she was approached by someone who had seen her on MySpace and wanted to recruit her into the adult industry. Three months later, she visited her first porn set. Her first scene was the first time she had ever...
, an American pornographic actor - Belle GunnessBelle GunnessBelle Sorenson Gunness was a Norwegian-American serial killer....
(1859-c. 1931), a Norwegian-American female serial killer - Camilla Belle Routh an American Actress
Places
- Bailleul, NordBailleul, NordBailleul is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It is located in French Flanders near Lille.-Heraldry:-Media:...
, a town in France whose original Dutch name was Belle - Belle, MissouriBelle, MissouriBelle is a city in Maries and Osage counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 1,344 at the 2000 census.The Osage County portion of Belle is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, a town in the United States - Belle Township, Holt County, NebraskaBelle Township, Holt County, NebraskaBelle Township is one of thirty-seven townships in Holt County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 63 at the 2000 census. A 2006 estimate placed the township's population at 59.-External links:*...
, a township in the United States - Belle, West VirginiaBelle, West VirginiaBelle is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 1,259 at the 2000 census. Belle was incorporated on December 13, 1958 by the Kanawha County Circuit Court...
, a town in the United States - Belle Isle (disambiguation), one of several places
- MoodubelleMoodubelleBelle is a town in Karnātakā, a Southern state of India, located between Western Ghats and Arabian Sea. This territory belongs to Udupi District, and shares its borders with Shirva, Pamboor, Katapady, Udupi, Manipal and Kanajar .-Overview:...
, Udupi District, India
Railroads
- Southern Belle (KCS)Southern Belle (KCS)The Southern Belle was a named passenger train service offered by Kansas City Southern Railway from the 1940s through the 1960s, running between Kansas City, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana.The service was inaugurated on September 2, 1940...
, 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 BelleDevon BelleThe Devon Belle was a luxury express passenger train in England which ran between London Waterloo station and Ilfracombe and Plymouth in Devon in the years from 1947 to 1954.-The train:...
, 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
- La Belle (ship)La Belle (ship)La Belle was one of Robert de La Salle's four ships when he explored the Gulf of Mexico with the ill-fated mission of starting a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1685. La Belle was wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay the following year, dooming La Salle's Texas colony to...
, one of French explorer La Salle's ships lost in 1686 during a colonization attempt in Texas. - Belle of LouisvilleBelle of LouisvilleThe Belle of Louisville is a steamboat owned and operated by the city of Louisville, Kentucky and moored at its downtown wharf next to the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere during its annual operational period...
, a restored Ohio/Mississippi River sternwheeler riverboat - Celebration BelleCelebration BelleThe Celebration Belle is a riverboat on the Mississippi River. This boat normally serves the Quad Cities region as a passenger excursion boat. Originally, the boat was named the Mississippi Belle and was based in Dubuque, Iowa....
, a riverboat - Northern BelleNorthern BelleNorthern Belle was an American transatlantic ship which ran aground near Thanet, England on January 5, 1857. No lives were lost, thanks to heroic rescue efforts, in blizzard conditions...
, a ship that ran aground near London in 1857 - USCS Belle (1848)USCS Belle (1848)USCS Belle was a schooner that served as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey from 1848 to 1857.The Coast Survey acquired Belle from the United States Army Quartermaster Department in 1848 and placed her in service along the United States Gulf Coast, where she spent her entire Coast...
, a survey ship in service with the United Coast Survey from 1848 to 1857
See also
- Bel (disambiguation)
- Bell (disambiguation)
- BEL (disambiguation)
- PeléPeléHowever, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...
, Brazilian former football player