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View synonyms for dell

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dell1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dell1

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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