Dell

English

Noun

Dell (plural Dells)

1. valley
   • 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50

     To this day they dwell

     In a lonely dell,

Synonyms

• dale
• dingle
• vale
• valley
• See also Thesaurus:valley

Adjectives for Dell

bosky; mysterious; darksome; shaded; dreamy; labyrinthine; pathless; pastoral; narrow; hollow; diminutive; desolate; untrodden; resounding; budded; healthy; briery.

Verbs for Dell

abandon—; bloom in—; frolic in—; grow in—; haunt—; hide in—; inhabit—; leap in—; perform in—; retire to—; retreat into—; ring through—; seek—; shelter in—; wander in—; —invites; —protects; — soothes; —winds.

Thesaurus

abysm, abyss, arroyo, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, dale, defile, dike, dingle, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, glen, gorge, groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, incision, intervale, joint, kloof, leak, lunar rill, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, strath, trench, trough, vale, valley, void, wadi

Etymology

Akin to dale, vale, and valley

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɛl/ SAMPA: /dEl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Translations

Valley

Bulgarian: долчинка (bg) f. Finnish: alho (fi) Latin: vallis (la)

Romanian: vale (ro) Scottish Gaelic: coire (gd) m. Spanish: valle (es) f.

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Albanian

Noun

dell m.

1. sinew

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ظِلّ (ʐell).

Noun

dell m.

1. shade