Dell
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɛl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dell is a noun meaning A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
Meaning
A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
More Meanings
- 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11:
- 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.
- (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
Example Sentences
Sweet doxies and dells
To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.
In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.
Word Forms
- dells
Synonyms for dell
Depending on context, synonyms include dale, dingle, vale, valley.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dingle, vale, dale, dyer, bosky, widescreen.
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