dell
[del]
- a small, usually wooded valley; vale.
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Origin of dell
Dell
[del]
- a male or female given name.
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dells
[delz]
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Origin of dells
by construal as a plural of dell
dell'
[del]
- (in names of Italian derivation) an elided form of della: Giovanni dell' Anguillara.
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Examples from the Web for dell
Contemporary Examples
Sadly, Dell was killed five weeks after performing this stunt, fatally injured in a different performance.
“Oh, this is from 2005,” says Dell, a self-described Michelle Kwan “uber-fan” who lives in Yonkers.
Figure Skater Michelle Kwan Chases Gold in Rhode Island’s Gubernatorial RaceNicholas McCarvel
April 17, 2014
Today, on his desk, sits a Dell laptop and a copy of Lincoln The Man by Edgar Lee Masters.
Dell is faced with a cratering PC market as well as competitors like Amazon in the IT service industry.
Powers buried all five bodies outside a garage in Quiet Dell, West Virginia, where he had confined and then killed them.
Historical Examples
"Well, I do think it's awfully good, Dell," began the Countess.
Chip, of the Flying UB. M. Bower
We can't do that, Dell; we got to stay here and feed this gang once more.
They of the High TrailsHamlin Garland
I am sorry to trouble you; but I really am unable to leave the Dell.
OliveDinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
"I have left it behind me in the dell," she said, blushing and hanging her head.
Sandman's Goodnight StoriesAbbie Phillips Walker
"Dell wasn't elected to the office," Judge Thayer explained.
Trail's EndGeorge W. Ogden
dell
- a small, esp wooded hollow
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Word Origin
Old English; related to Middle Low German delle valley; compare dale
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Word Origin and History for dell
n.1
Old English dell "dell, hollow, dale" (perhaps lost and then borrowed in Middle English from cognate Middle Dutch/Middle Low German delle), from Proto-Germanic *daljo (cf. German Delle "dent, depression," Gothic ib-dalja "slope of a mountain"); related to dale (q.v.).
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n.2
rogue's cant 16c.-17c. for "a young girl of the vagrant class," of uncertain origin.
A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man. ... [W]hen they have beene lyen with all by the vpright man then they be Doxes, and no Dells. [Thomas Harman, "A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors," 1567]
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