dell
noun
a small, usually wooded valley; vale.
dell
1 American
[del]
/ dɛl /
noun
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dells
plural
Dell
2
American
[del]
/ dɛl /
noun
dell'
3
American
[del]
/ dɛl /
dell
British
/ dɛl /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dell
before 1000; Middle English delle, Old English dell; akin to dale
Example Sentences
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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
The dusk was deep when at length they set out, creeping over the westward rim of the dell, and fading like ghosts into the broken country on the borders of the road.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
He said he expects the company to beat earnings expectations and raise its outlook for the 2027 fiscal year when Dell reports results on Sept. 1.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Expectations are high heading into Dell Technologies’ earnings report next week, but an Evercore ISI analyst says the company should be able to clear Wall Street’s bar and send its stock even higher.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
It added a series of rest stops had also been installed along the trail, offering "stunning views across Plymouth" and linking with Saltram's existing paths including The Dell.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Antonio Gracias, the founder of Valor Equity Partners, said he likes the technology and team Dell is assembling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
And now, Dell and I are left to iron our own dresses.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
By a devious four-mile route across Rome, past kneeling and cheering thousands, past the packed stands in the Via dell' Impero, the Pope's motorcade wound its slow way.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lively songs of the mounte banks are cribbed from some old com media dell' arte notes, except for a pert little tarantella by Musical Director Gino Marinuzzi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blending song and satire, commedia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies of the 1914-18 war.
From Time Magazine Archive
A review of the principal masks and their subordinate species, as these were finally developed—Modifications introduced into the masks, or fixed parts, of the Commedia dell' Arte, by men of genius who supported them.—8.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
It's humps, hollows and greens on plateaus and in dells with its two loops of nines along the water make it a ideal links venue and one worthy of a visit.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 18, 2017
A lithe athlete and a musician skilled on the mandolin and guitar, Bailey was raised in the mountains and dells of the Adirondacks in New York and has skied biathlon for a decade.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2016
Instead of the suburban vistas, there are deep dells, overhanging trees, shaded walks, radiant flowers and glowing colours.
From BBC ● May 26, 2013
I have watched a misty pink sunrise across gentle Indiana, seen the farms and autumnal dells of Wisconsin, the wheeling perspectives of corn fields, pumpkin fields, harrowed earth and prairie roads.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010
In fields, dells, and hollows, families terrified by what they read in the papers each day about the collapsing national economy nonetheless now began to think about Chicago.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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