Usually means: Valley, especially in northern England.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dale, dale: Merriam-Webster
  2. dale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dale: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dale, dale: Wordnik
  7. dale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dale, dale: Wiktionary
  9. dale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dale: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dale: Dictionary.com
  13. dale: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dale (Middle-earth), Dale (album), Dale (crater), Dale (film), Dale (given name), Dale (landform), Dale (origin), Dale (part of place name), Dale (place name element), Dale (surname), Dale (woreda), Dale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dale: Rhymezone
  18. dale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Dale: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. dale: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Dale: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dale: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dale: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. DALE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. dale: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Dale, dale: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (chiefly British, slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
▸ noun:  The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
▸ noun:  A surname from Middle English for someone living in a dale.
▸ noun:  A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
▸ noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
▸ noun:  A female given name transferred from the surname.
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Ainstable parish, Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5444).
▸ noun:  A village and community in west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8005).
▸ noun:  A village in Fjaler, Vestland, Norway.
▸ noun:  A village in Vaksdal, Vestland, Norway.
▸ noun:  A village in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
▸ noun:  A woreda in Ethiopia.
▸ noun:  A community of Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
▸ noun:  A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Illinois.
▸ noun:  A town in Spencer County, Indiana.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana.
▸ noun:  A former community in Tobacco Township, Gladwin County, Michigan.
▸ noun:  A ghost town in Clay County, Minnesota.
▸ noun:  A ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska.
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Wyoming County, New York.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
▸ noun:  A borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
▸ noun:  A town and census-designated place therein, in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.

Similar:
daleside, glen, batch, dell, dene, dalles, downland, dumble, Devall, dean, more...

Opposite:
hill, peak, summit, ridge, mount

Types:
Earnhardt, Carnegie, Murphy, Challenger, Cherokee, more...

Phrases:
Dale Carnegie, dale owen, Dale Earnhardt, Dale Evans, Thomas Dale, more...

Adjectives:
little, deep, old, late, lonely, young, dove, due, narrow, poor, and


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Similar:
daleside, glen, batch, dell, dene, dalles, downland, dumble, Devall, dean, more...

Opposite:
hill, peak, summit, ridge, mount

Types:
Earnhardt, Carnegie, Murphy, Challenger, Cherokee, more...

Phrases:
Dale Carnegie, dale owen, Dale Earnhardt, Dale Evans, Thomas Dale, david dale, chester dale, richard dale, james dale, Dale Chihuly, wood dale, Dale Martin, Castle Dale, dale gordon, glen dale, pleasant dale, more...

Adjectives:
little, deep, old, late, lonely, young, dove, due, narrow, poor, and



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