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dell¹

  • /dɛl/

Rhymes with -ɛl

Where it comes from

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.

noun dells

  1. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow. To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.

    Similar: dale, dingle, vale, valley

dell²

  • /dɛl/

Rhymes with -ɛl

Where it comes from

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Possibly from dell (valley). Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”).

noun dells

  1. obsolete A young woman; a wench. Sweet doxies and dells

Dell³

  • /dɛl/

Rhymes with -ɛl

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
  3. An unincorporated community in Faribault County, Minnesota.
  4. An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
  5. A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: dingle, vale, dale, dyer, bosky, widescreen, clearing, dil, del, the, diehl, valley, glen, hollow, basin, depression

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noun sunken area of ground

Españoldepresión
Françaisvallon, combe
DeutschSenke

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MLA

"dell." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dell. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

dell. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dell

Chicago

"dell." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dell.

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@misc{dell_2026,
  title = {dell},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dell},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}