Kimberley

[kim-ber-lee]

noun

1. a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.

2. Also Kimberly. a female given name.

Kimberley

/ ˈkɪmbəlɪ /

noun

1. a city in central South Africa; the capital of Northern Cape province: besieged (1899–1900) for 126 days during the Boer War; diamond-mining and -marketing centre, with heavy engineering works. Pop: 62 526 (2001)

2. Also called: the Kimberleys. a plateau region of NW Australia, in N Western Australia: consists of rugged mountains surrounded by grassland. Area: about 360 000 sq km (140 000 sq miles)

Example Sentences

"But in the end, we knew how every single part of the business worked," said Kimberley Walsh.

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Their expert guest on this podcast episode, psychologist Kimberley Wilson, helped Xand understand that "there's no such thing as willpower".

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Intervention by human rights groups and the UN led to the establishment of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme in 2003, which did much to end the sale of so-called "blood diamonds" on the open market.

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Kimberley Bingham, the acting prisons and probation ombudsman, said there was intelligence that Mr Petryszyn was supplying psychoactive substances in prison, but there was "little evidence" to suggest that he was using them himself.

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Kimberley Grima regularly lies awake at night, calculating which of her three children – who, like her, all have chronic illnesses – can see their specialists.

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