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• dell
  dell

  noun

  a small, usually wooded valley; vale.
• Dell
  Dell

  noun

  a male or female given name.
• dell'
  dell'

  (in names of Italian derivation) an elided form of della: Giovanni dell' Anguillara.

dell

¹ American  

[del] / dɛl /

noun

dells plural

1. a small, usually wooded valley; vale.

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Dell ² American  

[del] / dɛl /

noun

1. a male or female given name.

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dell' ³ American  

[del] / dɛl /

1. (in names of Italian derivation) an elided form of della: Giovanni dell' Anguillara.

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dell British  

/ dɛl /

noun

1. a small, esp wooded hollow

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dells
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dell

before 1000; Middle English delle, Old English dell; akin to dale

Example Sentences

It will rumble through the valley; it will rattle in the dell.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2021

A tiny church stands nestled in a dell against steep, forested hills.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2018

We couldn't film in Lamorna itself because it's in a little dell and you can't get trucks down there, so we had to find places to stand in for it.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013

Presiding over this in the Church of Santa Maria delle Anime dell Purgatorio is an actual crowned skull called “Lucia” and a sculptural masterpiece of a winged skull.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

On the western flank of Weathertop they found a sheltered hollow, at the bottom of which there was a bowl-shaped dell with grassy sides.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien