dale

UK /deu/ US /deu/

name 5noun 3

Definitions

noun

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: [...]

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

noun

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.

name

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

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

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

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

Collocations

ADJ.

bridal, fair, fast, over, sacred

We walked through the fair dale on a sunny afternoon last spring.

VERB + DALE

influence, looked

The old professor's influence on Dale shaped his entire academic career and ambitions.

DALE + NOUN

carnegie, river, steyn

The River Dale flows through the valley behind my grandmother's old house.

PREP.

across, through

We walked through the beautiful green dale on our way back home.

ADV.

recently

I haven't seen much of Dale recently, but I heard he's doing well.

Thesaurus

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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

up hill and down dale

Here and there; everywhere.

I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

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: [...]

Wiktionary

The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken gr

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

Mary bought Tom a copy of "How to Win Friends and Influence People", by Dale Carnegie.

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A gust of wind blew Curdken's hat away, and he had to chase it over hill and dale.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, dale is marked as archaic, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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