Noun: dell
Sample Sentences
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To this day they dwell
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In a lonely dell. [1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50]
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In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight. [1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:]
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Already the shrill lark is out of sight,
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Flooding with waves of song this silent dell,
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---Ah! there is something more in that bird's flight
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Than could be tested in a crucible!---
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But the air freshens, let us go, why soon
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The woodmen will be here; how we have lived this night of June![...] [a. 1881, Oscar Wilde, 'The Garden of Eros', in Poems:]
Nouns inflected like dell
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale. See: Middle English Nouns '
delle', Old English Nouns '
dell', English Nouns '
dale'.
Verbs referencing "dell"
Dutch Nouns
del, German Nouns
Delle.