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A dale is a valley. In everyday English now, most people just say valley. Dale is older, and you still meet it in place names, especially in the north of England: the Yorkshire Dales, Borrowdale, Airedale. In those names it means the valley of that place or river. It is a countryside word, more at home on a map or in a poem than in a classroom geography list. You would not usually point at a valley in Taiwan and call it a dale. The English word comes from Old English for a valley.
谷地（多見於英國北部地名，日常較常說 valley）
組成From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą, “valley.”
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- della related old English word for a small valley, from the same Germanic family
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Dalename/deɪl/
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A surname from Middle English for someone living in a dale.
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A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
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A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
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A hamlet in Ainstable parish, Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5444).
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A village and community in west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8005).
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A village in Fjaler, Vestland, Norway.
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A village in Vaksdal, Vestland, Norway.
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A village in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
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A woreda in Ethiopia.
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A community in Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
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dalenoun詞源 1/deu/
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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: [...]
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The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
dalenoun詞源 2/deu/
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archaicA 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。