Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small secluded wooded valley.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small valley between hills; a little dale; a glen; a ravine.
- n. A young girl; a wench.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small, retired valley; a ravine.
- n. obsolete A young woman; a wench.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small wooded hollow
Etymologies
- From Middle English delle, from Old English *dell (“small dale”), from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow, abyss”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *dalan (“valley, dale”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰol-, *dʰel- (“an arch, vaulting, curve, curvature, cavity”). Cognate with Dutch del ("a dell"), German dialectal Telle ("a hollow"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English del, from Old English dell. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The problem with dell is they will not ship to mexico.”
“I'm going to get myself a dell laptop soon, just wondering if dell is a good buy? or acer?”
“I can tell you, the only upgrade you can do on my dell is replace the ram and the hard drive/optical drive”
“The sun now lit the eastern sky, but the mountain dell in which the four figures stood remained dark.”
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“Happy to see that dell is going retail this way I can get accessories for my dell and get repairs done quick”
“What goes around comes around … … … dell is paying the price now.”
“Well …. my experience with dell is nothing to boost about.”
“August 11, 2006 at 5: 17 am yaa .. dell is SUCKS!!”
“Seems no one is able to press the enter button anywhere in dell .. or perhaps their computers have gone down.”
“I guess it depends on the way we use the PC. dell is a great company and I wish to say that I would make sure to promote it between my friends.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dell’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Water always flows downhill
The path of least resistance, watercourses, plumbing....
swale, hollow, creek, crick, depression, holler, draw, ditch, corrie, cwm, continental divide, stream and 89 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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November Words-10031
Godspeed, odious, affinity, cicatrix, air lift, domino, dominance, eggplant, donkey, tug boat, trifle, sculpture and 8 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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roseandivy's list
mooncalf, wonted, gibbet, artless, noontide, blithe, glitterati, vorpal, soporific, moxie, pilfer, betwixt and between and 263 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 281 more...
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juliah's Words
rapscallion, jelly, umbilical, abracadabra, brackish, dell, embrocation, fret, goulash, hilarity, icicle, knickerbocker and 13 more...
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fibrous words
good strong words that create distinct images and feelings
tuneful, usher, fibrous, trinket, dollop, tinker, besmirch, simper, urge, scrawny, shrivel, slake and 69 more...
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.terra
fen, hollow, vale, realm, glade, knoll, princedom, thule, swale, bog, foss, brae and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dell.
rolig There is a lovely little park in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore, in front of the art museum, which has been known for decades simply as the Dell. It's a favorite of sun-bathers and dog-walkers, as well as being the site of various festivals. This word conjures very pleasant memories for me. Dec 7, 2007