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dell

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
dɛl

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
  3. A young woman; a wench.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
  5. A town in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
  6. A small secluded wooded valley.
  7. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11
  8. An unincorporated community in Faribault County, Minnesota.
  9. a small, usu. wooded valley; vale.
  10. 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.
  11. A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.
  12. An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
  13. (Physical Geography) a small, esp wooded hollow
  14. A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.
  15. n → kleines bewaldetes Tal
    n

Equivalents

DeutschSenke
العربيةديل
13 more languages
Bosanskisenke
Gaeilgefothair
Gàidhligcoiresrath
Galegovalgada
Hrvatskisenke
Magyarvölgy
Íslenskalaut
Latinavallicula
Nederlandsinzinking
Polskidebrza
Српскиsenke
Svenskasvacka

Examples

“To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.”
“In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.”
Sweet doxies and dells

CEFR level

C2
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