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dale

noun
/deu//deɪl/

Etymology

Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.

  1. inherited from *dalą✻
  2. inherited from *dal✻
  3. inherited from dæl
  4. inherited from dale

Definitions

  1. A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

    • And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields
    • Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, / Then reached the caverns measureless to man, / And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]

  2. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

  3. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

    • The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A surname from Middle English for someone living in a dale.

    2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

    3. A hamlet in Ainstable parish, Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5444).

    4. A village and community in west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8005).

    5. A village in Fjaler, Vestland, Norway.

    6. A village in Vaksdal, Vestland, Norway.

    7. A village in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

    8. A woreda in Ethiopia.

    9. A community in Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.

    10. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

acre-dale, Airedale, Allandale, Allendale, Allendale East, Allendale North, Angledale, Annadale, Annandale, Archdale, Archdale Junction, Armadale, Armidale, Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, Attadale, Avondale, Avondale Heights, Axedale, Bairnsdale, Balldale, Banksiadale, Bedfordale, Berridale, Berriedale, Bevendale, Birkdale, Blythdale, Boisdale, Borderdale, Borrowdale, Boynedale, Brendale, Brookdale, Brucedale, Calderdale, Camdale, Carindale, Carpendale, Castle Dale · +189 more

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA