dell

[ del ]

/ dɛl /

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noun

a small, usually wooded valley; vale.

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Origin of dell

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

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dell'

[ del ]

/ dɛl /

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

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Dell

[ del ]

/ dɛl /

noun

a male or female given name.

How to use dell in a sentence

Sadly, Dell was killed five weeks after performing this stunt, fatally injured in a different performance.
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“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 Race|Nicholas McCarvel|April 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Today, on his desk, sits a Dell laptop and a copy of Lincoln The Man by Edgar Lee Masters.
This Civil War Reenactor Controls Christie’s Fate|Olivia Nuzzi|March 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Dell is faced with a cratering PC market as well as competitors like Amazon in the IT service industry.
Best Business Longreads|William O’Connor|November 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Powers buried all five bodies outside a garage in Quiet Dell, West Virginia, where he had confined and then killed them.
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Drawing her scarlet cloak higher on her shoulders, she bent her steps towards Oxlip Dell.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series|Mrs. Henry Wood
Now we must go through the woods till we come to the lee of him on the other side of the dell.
The Children of the New Forest|Captain Marryat
And he walked to the window and looked down the steep scarp to where the river foamed in the bottom of the dell.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI|Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the Chiesa della Madonna dell' Acqua, rebuilt in the eighteenth century.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa|Edward Hutton
The trouble is, as Mr. Floyd Dell has pointed out, that the parent wants complete submission and complete affection too.
Seeing Things at Night|Heywood Broun

British Dictionary definitions for dell

dell

/ (dɛl) /

noun

a small, esp wooded hollow

Word Origin for dell

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

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