Belleville

Belle +‎ -ville

• (French commune): From French Belleville, derived from belle vue (“beautiful view”).
• (neighbourhood of Paris): From French Belleville, literally “beautiful town”.
• (city in Ontario): Renamed in honour of Lady Annabella Gore after an 1816 visit with her husband, Francis Gore.

Belleville (countable and uncountable, plural Bellevilles)

1. A surname.
2. One of two towns in Ivory Coast.
3. One of three communes in France.
4. A community in Ireland.
5. A community in New Brunswick, Canada.
6. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
7. A city in Ontario, Canada.
8. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town in Yell County, Arkansas.
   2. A ghost town in California.
   3. A city, the county seat of St. Clair County, Illinois.
   4. A small city, the county seat of Republic County, Kansas.
   5. A city in Michigan.
   6. A ghost town in Nevada.
   7. A township in New Jersey.
   8. A hamlet and census-designated place in New York.
   9. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
   10. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, also named Belville.
   11. A village in Wisconsin.

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