Billとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /bɪl/, [bɪɫ], enPR: bîl
• 韻: -ɪl

固有名詞

Bill (plural Bills)

1. A diminutive of the male given name William.
   • 1974, John le Carré, Tinker. Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Simon&Schuster, published 2002, →ISBN, page 7:

     "My other name's Bill," he said. "I was christened Bill but Mr Thursgood calls me William." / "Bill, eh. The unpaid Bill. Anyone ever call you that?" / "No, sir." / "Good name, anyway." / "Yes, sir." / "Known a lot of Bills. They've all been good 'uns."

   • 1998, Nick Hornby, About A Boy, Victor Gollancz, published 1998, →ISBN, page 208:

     One of his neighbours opposite, a nice old guy with a stoop and a horrible little Yorkshire terrier, called him Bill - always had done and presumably always would, right up till the day he died. It actually irritated Will, who was not, he felt, by any stretch of the imagination, a Bill. Bill wouldn't smoke spliffs and listen to Nirvana. So why had he allowed this misapprehension to continue? Why hadn't he just said, four years ago, "Actually my name is Will"?

   • 2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN‎:

     Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”

2. (rare) A diminutive of the male given name Bilal.
   • 2025 October 28, Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein, “Judge rules LA’s top federal prosecutor was illegally appointed”, in POLITICO‎:

     Bill Essayli, Trump’s pick in April to temporarily lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, should have departed the post by July 31 under a 120-day limit imposed by federal law, U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright concluded.

3. A surname.
4. (British, slang) A nickname for the British constabulary. Often called "The Bill" or "Old Bill"

派生語

• Bill Williams River
• Billary
• Billy

関連する語

• Will

参照

• Peter Burke (1997). Varieties of Cultural History. Cornell University Press. p. 51.
• Israel, David (2015): The Origins of Nicknames

Further reading

• Bill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bill (given name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bill (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia