• IPA: /deɪl/

dale (plural dales)

1. (mainly, Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

   Synonyms: dell, dells, vale

   • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: Printed for John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, OCLC 1380031 ↗, page 57 ↗:

     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: [...]

   • 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, publishers, […], OCLC 1118026626 ↗, page 113 ↗:

     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 ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.

• dollar

• French: combe
• German: Tal
• Italian: valle
• Portuguese: vale
• Russian: доли́на
• Spanish: valle

dale (plural dales)

1. (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

• IPA: /deɪl/

1. Surname for someone living in a dale.
2. A male given name.