Meaning of Boswell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
2. A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds.
3. James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson.
4. A place name:
5. A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790).
6. A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
7. A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.
8. A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
9. A community on Kootenay Lake in the Kootenays, south-east British Columbia, Canada.
10. A former cannery town on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

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Examples

“"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."”

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