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  • noun A motor car manufactured by this company
  • proper noun An English habitational surname.

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Originally a Sussex habitational name, the word "leag" or "ley" meaning field in Anglo-Saxon. Hence, "bent field".

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Named after the founder of Bentley Motors, WO Bentley.

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