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Webster 1913 Edition


Dell

Dell

,
Noun.
[AS.
del
, akin to E.
dale
; cf. D.
delle
,
del
, low ground. See
Dale
.]
1.
A small, retired valley; a ravine.
In
dells
and dales, concealed from human sight.
Tickell.
2.
A young woman; a wench.
[Obs.]
Sweet doxies and
dells
.
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dell

DELL

,
Noun.
A pit, or a hollow place; a cavity or narrow opening.

Definition 2024


Dell

Dell

See also: dell, Dëll, and dell'

English

Proper noun

Dell

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Montana, USA

See also


Plautdietsch

Noun

Dell m

  1. dill

dell

dell

See also: Dell, Dëll, and dell'

English

Noun

dell (plural dells)

  1. valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.[1]
  2. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
    • Ben Jonson
      Sweet doxies and dells.

Synonyms

Translations

References

  1. Brown, Lesley (1993) The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon, ISBN 0-19-861271-0

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).

Noun

dell m (indefinite plural dej)

  1. (anatomy) tendon
  2. sinew

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ظِلّ (ẓill).

Noun

dell m

  1. shade

Manx

Verb

dell (verbal noun dellal)

  1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dell ghell nell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.