BENTLEY


Meaning of BENTLEY in English

I . Bentley

n

an expensive make of car, formerly British. The company was sold to a German firm in 1998:

The chauffeur was waiting in the Bentley.

II . Edmund Clerihew Bentley

(1875–1956)

an English journalist who wrote detective stories and invented a form of comic verse with four lines, now called a clerihew after his middle name. Clerihews are usually about well-known people. A typical example is

John Stuart Mill

By a mighty effort of will

Overcame his natural bonhomie

And wrote ‘Principles of Political Economy’.

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.