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dell
/dɛl/
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What does dell mean?
noun
- A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A town in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Faribault County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
- A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.
noun
- (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɛl/
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There is always a bosky dell in the foreground, and a purple crag embellished with a ruined tower at a proper angle.
The two houses, with their vineyards, stood each in a green niche of its own in this steep and narrow forest dell.
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‘This doxy dell can cut ben whids, And wap well for a win, And prig and cloy so benshiply, All daisy-ville within.
She followed him behind the dell of brambles to his wheeled dwelling into which Venn mounted, placing the three-legged stool just within the door.
On one side of the church extends a wide woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees.