dell

¹

[ del ]

noun

1. a small, usually wooded valley; vale.

Dell

²

[ del ]

noun

1. a male or female given name.

dell'

³

[ del ]

1. (in names of Italian derivation) an elided form of della: Giovanni dell' Anguillara.

dell

/ dɛl /

noun

1. a small, esp wooded hollow

Word History and Origins

Origin of dell¹

before 1000; Middle English delle, Old English dell; akin to dale

Word History and Origins

Origin of dell¹

Old English; related to Middle Low German delle valley; compare dale

Example Sentences

Sadly, Dell was killed five weeks after performing this stunt, fatally injured in a different performance.

From The Daily Beast

“Oh, this is from 2005,” says Dell, a self-described Michelle Kwan “uber-fan” who lives in Yonkers.

From The Daily Beast

Today, on his desk, sits a Dell laptop and a copy of Lincoln The Man by Edgar Lee Masters.

From The Daily Beast

Dell is faced with a cratering PC market as well as competitors like Amazon in the IT service industry.

From The Daily Beast

Powers buried all five bodies outside a garage in Quiet Dell, West Virginia, where he had confined and then killed them.

From The Daily Beast

Drawing her scarlet cloak higher on her shoulders, she bent her steps towards Oxlip Dell.

From Project Gutenberg

Now we must go through the woods till we come to the lee of him on the other side of the dell.

From Project Gutenberg

And he walked to the window and looked down the steep scarp to where the river foamed in the bottom of the dell.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the Chiesa della Madonna dell' Acqua, rebuilt in the eighteenth century.

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The trouble is, as Mr. Floyd Dell has pointed out, that the parent wants complete submission and complete affection too.

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