Bentley

• Bently

• enPR: bĕnt'lē, IPA^(key): /ˈbɛntliː/

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From Old English Beonetlēah. Originally a Sussex habitational name, the word lēah or lēag meaning field in Old English. Hence, equivalent to bent (“bent-grass”) +‎ -leigh/lea (“meadow, field”); compare Bentham.

Bentley

1. An English habitational surname from Old English.
2. A place name, including:
   1. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
   2. A town in Alberta, Canada.
   3. A number of places in England:
      1. A hamlet in Rowley parish, East Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref TA0135).
      2. A hamlet north-west of Brentwood, Brentwood borough, Essex (OS grid ref TQ5696).
      3. A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7844). ^[1]
      4. A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1136). ^[2]
      5. An outer suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE5605).
      6. A hamlet and civil parish (served by Bentley and Merevale Parish Council) in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2895).^[3]
      7. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9899).
      8. Lower Bentley and Upper Bentley in Bentley Pauncefoot parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire.
   4. A number of places in the United States:
      1. A small town in Hancock County, Illinois.
      2. A small city in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
      3. An unincorporated community in Bay County, Michigan.
      4. A township in Gladwin County, Michigan.
      5. An unincorporated community in Hettinger County, North Dakota.

Named after the founder of Bentley Motors, WO Bentley.

Bentley (plural Bentleys)

1. A motor car manufactured by this company.
   • 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 148:

     The car she reclined in was a 1960s Bentley.

   • 2019 July 10, John McIlroy, “Bentley marks 100th birthday with futuristic new concept car”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The EXP 100 GT is a two-door, four-seat behemoth measuring 19 feet (5.8 meters) in length. It’s designed to show what a Bentley GT might look like in the year 2035, complete with a pure-electric powertrain and self-driving capabilities.

   • 2021 April 1, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Sales of Bentleys and Lamborghinis are booming because rich people are bored”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     While auto sales as a whole have suffered from factory shutdowns and other disruptions due to the pandemic, sales of super-expensive cars, like Ferraris, Bentleys and Lamborghinis, finished 2020 at a blistering pace.

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