dale

English

Etymology

Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dalan. Cognate with Dutch dal, German Tal, Swedish dal.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /deɪl/
• Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. (UK) a valley in an otherwise hilly area.
   • Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, - Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Synonyms

• dell, dells
• vale
• valley

Translations

valley

Belarusian: даліна (be) (dalína) f. Bulgarian: долина (bg) f. Chamicuro: kajs̈hopi Chinese: Mandarin: 山谷 (zh) (shāngǔ) Danish: dal (da) c. Dutch: dal (nl) n., vallei (nl) f. Faroese: dalur (fo) m. Finnish: laakso (fi) French: combe (fr) f. Icelandic: dalur (is) m.

Japanese: 谷 (ja) (たに, tani) Luxembourgish: Dall (lb) m. Norwegian: dal (no) m. Norwegian Nynorsk: dal (nn) m. Polish: dolina (pl) Russian: долина (ru) (dolína) f. Serbo-Croatian: dol (sh), dolina (sh), udolina (sh) Swedish: dal (sv) c. Ukrainian: долина (uk) (dolýna) f. Welsh: dyffryn (cy), dôl (cy)

Related terms

• dollar

Anagrams

• Adel
• deal
• lade
• lead

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Danish

Etymology 1

See dal.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Noun

dale c.

1. plural indefinite of dal

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German dalen.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Verb

dale (imperative dal, infinitive at dale, present tense daler, past tense dalede, past participle har dalet)

1. fall
2. descend
3. go down
4. sink
5. decrease
6. fall off
7. subside
8. decline

Antonyms

• stige

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Dutch

Verb

dale

1. singular present subjunctive of dalen.

Anagrams

• adel, lade

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Middle English

Etymology

Old English dæl

Noun

dale

1. dale, valley

Declension

    Declension of dale

	Singular	Plural
nominative, accusative	dale	dales
genitive	dale	dales
dative	dale	dalen

Descendants

• English: dale

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Spanish

Verb

dale (infinitive dar)

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun le.

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Venetian

Adjective

dale f.

1. feminine plural form of dalo