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dell

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/dɛl/

Definition of dell

9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
    “To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.”
    “In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.”
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noun

  1. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
    “To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.”
    “In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.”
  2. (obsolete)A young woman; a wench.
    “Sweet doxies and dells”
  3. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11
  4. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11: A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.

name

  1. A surname.
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Etymology

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.

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