Kimberley

Origin

English place name "wood or clearing of Kyneburg (a seventh century female saint)", from Old English cyne ("royal") + burh ("fortress") + lēag ("leigh, clearing").

Full definition of Kimberley

Proper noun

1. Any of several places, notably a city in South Africa, noted for diamond mining.
2. derived from the surname or the place name (site of a battle in the Boer Wars).
3. popular in the 1960s and the 1970s, more often spelled Kimberly.
• 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.

Derived terms

• kimberlite