dale
/deu/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.98 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
name
A surname from Middle English for someone living in a dale.
name
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
name
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Example Sentences
- "And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields"
- "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, / Then reached the caverns measureless to man, / And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]"
- "The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it."
- "Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along."
- "The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships."
Etymology
From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.
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Phrases
acre-dale
Allendale East
Allendale North
Archdale Junction
Aspendale Gardens
Avondale Heights
Castle Dale
Chapel-le-Dale