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dell

noun
/dɛl/

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.

  1. inherited from *daljō✻
  2. inherited from *dalljā✻
  3. inherited from dell — “small dale”
  4. inherited from delle

Definitions

  1. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a…

    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. A young woman

    A young woman; a wench.

    • Sweet doxies and dells

  3. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris

    1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A surname.

    2. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

arch dell, wapping dell

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA