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Dale

//deu// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Middle English for someone living in a dale.
  2. 2
    A unisex given name transferred from the surname.; A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. 3
    A unisex given name transferred from the surname.; A female given name transferred from the surname.
  4. 4
    A hamlet in Ainstable parish, Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5444).
  5. 5
    A village and community in west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8005).
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  1. 6
    A village in Fjaler, Vestland, Norway.
  2. 7
    A village in Vaksdal, Vestland, Norway.
  3. 8
    A village in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  4. 9
    A woreda in Ethiopia.
  5. 10
    A community in Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Illinois.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in McLean County, Illinois.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Spencer County, Indiana.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in O'Brien County, Iowa.
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    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Kingman County, Kansas.
  12. 17
    A number of places in the United States:; A former community in Tobacco Township, Gladwin County, Michigan.
  13. 18
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Clay County, Minnesota.
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    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Cottonwood County, Minnesota.
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    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Atchison County, Missouri.
  16. 21
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska.
  17. 22
    A number of places in the United States:; A hamlet in Wyoming County, New York.
  18. 23
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.
  19. 24
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
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    A number of places in the United States:; A borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
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    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
  22. 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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    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas.
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    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
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    A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
Noun
  1. 1
    A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. British

    "And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields"

  2. 2
    A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. archaic

    "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."

  3. 3
    an open river valley (in a hilly area) wordnet
  4. 4
    The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.

Etymology 2

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

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