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# dell

noun (a dell, dells)

«dell» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small valley or hollow, usually with trees and grass around it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#m1)
2. (a name) Dell is also a family name and a computer company name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#m2)

### In the lessons

A word from stories, poems and nursery rhymes: «The farmer's in his dell» (a playground singing game). Fairy tales put fairies and picnics in a woodland dell. In The Wind in the Willows the woods and river bank have hidden hollows and dells. It tells the reader of a quiet, sheltered, pretty place.

### Examples

- We had a picnic in a shady dell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#x1)
- «The farmer's in his dell» is an old singing game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#x2)
- Bluebells covered the floor of the dell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#x3)
- The fox had a den in a hidden dell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#x4)
- A little stream ran through the dell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#x5)
- Children played in the dell until sunset. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#x6)
- The wood was black about him, but there was a red glow in a dell close by. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Mostly in stories and poems; a «valley» is bigger.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dell» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dell/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dell» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dell.html) on Mova free.