dell
/dɛl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.67 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
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A surname.
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Example Sentences
- "To this day they dwell In a lonely dell."
- "In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight."
- "Already the shrill lark is out of sight, Flooding with waves of song this silent dell, ---Ah! there is something more in that bird's flight Than could be tested in a crucible!--- But the air freshens, let us go, why soon The woodmen will be here; how we have lived this night of June![...]"
- "My very photogenic died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges."
- "Sweet doxies and dells"
- "A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man."
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.