name
Meaning 1
A surname from Middle English for someone living in a dale.
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Standard Lemma guide
dale
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/deɪl/
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rhymes with -eɪl
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Multicultural-London-English: /deu/
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dāl
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CMU ARPABET: D EY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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name
Meaning 3
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A female given name transferred from the surname.
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Meaning 4
A hamlet in Ainstable parish, Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5444).
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Meaning 5
A village and community in west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8005).
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Meaning 6
A village in Fjaler, Vestland, Norway.
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Meaning 7
A village in Vaksdal, Vestland, Norway.
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Meaning 8
A village in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
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Meaning 9
A woreda in Ethiopia.
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Meaning 10
A community in Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
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Meaning 11
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Illinois.
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Meaning 12
A number of places in the United States:
A township in McLean County, Illinois.
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Meaning 13
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Spencer County, Indiana.
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Meaning 14
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana.
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Meaning 15
A number of places in the United States:
A township in O'Brien County, Iowa.
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Meaning 16
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kingman County, Kansas.
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Meaning 17
A number of places in the United States:
A former community in Tobacco Township, Gladwin County, Michigan.
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Meaning 18
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Clay County, Minnesota.
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Meaning 19
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cottonwood County, Minnesota.
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Meaning 20
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Atchison County, Missouri.
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Meaning 21
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska.
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Meaning 22
A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in Wyoming County, New York.
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Meaning 23
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.
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Meaning 24
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
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Meaning 25
A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
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Meaning 26
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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Meaning 27
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
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Meaning 28
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas.
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Meaning 29
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
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Meaning 30
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
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noun
Meaning 31
A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Qualifier: slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.
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Synonyms: dell, dells, vale
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noun
Meaning 32
The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
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noun
Meaning 33
A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
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Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 34
an open river valley (in a hilly area)
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Broader terms: valley, vale
History
Etymology
From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.
Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: dal — valley
- Arabic: ثَنِيَّة (ṯaniyya) — valley
- Azerbaijani: dərə — valley
- Basque: ibar — valley
- Belarusian: далі́на (dalína) — valley
- Bulgarian: долина (dolina) — valley
- Chamicuro: kajs̈hopi — valley
- Chinese Mandarin: 山谷 (shāngǔ) — valley
- Czech: údolí — valley
- Czech: dol — valley
- Danish: dal — valley
- Dutch: dal — valley
- Dutch: vallei — valley
- Faroese: dalur — valley
- Finnish: laakso — valley
- French: vallon — valley
- Galician: val — valley
- German: Tal — valley
- German: Dàl — valley
- German: Doal — valley
- German: Tau — valley
- German: Daal — valley
- Bavarian German: Thoi — valley
- German: Dahl — valley
- Icelandic: dalur — valley
- Italian: valle — valley
- Japanese: 谷 (tani) — valley
- Limburgish: doal — valley
- Luxembourgish: Dall — valley
- Middle English: dale — valley
- Norwegian: dal — valley
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dal — valley
- Pennsylvania German: Daal — valley
- Pennsylvania German: Waelli — valley
- Persian: دره (dare) — valley
- Polish: dolina — valley
- Portuguese: vale — valley
- Russian: доли́на (dolína) — valley
- Serbo-Croatian: dol — valley
- Serbo-Croatian: dolina — valley
- Serbo-Croatian: udolina — valley
- Slovene: dolína — valley
- Spanish: valle — valley
- Swedish: dal — valley
- Turkish: vadi — valley
- Ottoman Turkish: دره (dere) — valley
- Ukrainian: доли́на (dolýna) — valley
- Welsh: dyffryn — valley
- Welsh: dôl — valley